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Publisher
Vermont Historical Society
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
140 pages; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Vermonters have always been proud that their state was the first to outlaw slavery in its constitution - but is that what really happened?
This Vermont Historical Society book forces us to squarely consider the deepest questions about what freedom actually meant for African Americans in Vermont well into the nineteenth century.
The Problem of Slavery in Early Vermont joins the growing literature on the complicated history of race, emancipation,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
You are a slave in the 1850s, trying to escape your harsh life, or you are a slave catsher hoping to get rich catching escaped slaves, or you are part of the Underground Railroad helping slaves escape to freedom. Everything in this book happened to real people, and you choose which side you're on and what to do next.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A ferociously talented writer makes his stunning debut with this richly woven tapestry, set in a small Nova Scotia town settled by former slaves, that depicts several generations of one family bound together and torn apart by blood, faith, time, and fate. Structured as a triptych, Africaville chronicles the lives of three generations of the Sebolt family--Kath Ella, her son Omar/Etienne, and her grandson Warner--whose lives unfold against the tumultuous...
87) The wolf den
Author
Series
Wolf Den volume 1
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
459, 14 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Amara was once the beloved daughter of a doctor in Greece, until her father's sudden death plunged her mother into destitution. Now Amara is a slave and prostitute in Pompeii's notorious Wolf Den brothel or lupanar, owned by a cruel and ruthless man. Intelligent and resourceful, she is forced to hide her true self. But her spirit is far from broken. Buoyed by the sisterhood she forges with the brothel's other women, Amarafindssolace in the laughterand...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Explains how fugitive slaves escaping from the South to the northern states awakened northerners to the true nature of slavery and how the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act divided the nation and set it on the path to civil war
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 86 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In Traces of the trade: a story from the deep north, one family's painful but persistent confrontation with the continuing legacy of the slave trade becomes America's. Katrina Browne uncovers her New England family's deep involvement in the Triangle Trade and, in so doing, reveals the pivotal role slavery played in the growth of the whole American economy. This courageous documentary asks every American what we can and should do to repair the unacknowledged...
90) Django unchained
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
[Widescreen version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (166 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Django, a former slave turned hired gun, heads back to the plantation to free his wife, Broomhilda, from the tyrannical plantation owner Calvin Candie, with the help of a German bounty hunter, Dr. King Shultz.
Author
Publisher
Harry N Abrams
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
vi, 240 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that is suddenly transformed into the frightening world of the antebellum South. Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it. This searing graphic-novel...
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. Trade Paperback Edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Henry O'Toole escapes the Irish famine and sails to America, he doesn't expect the anti-Irish prejudices that await him. Determined to never starve again, he changes his name to Henry Taylor to secure a job and safeguard his future. Traveling south to Virginia, he meets Sarah, a slave woman torn from her family and sold to another plantation. There she must navigate the power system of the white masters as well as the hierarchy of her fellow...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Virginia
Pub. Date
1998, ©1997
Edition
1st pbk. ed
Physical Desc
xx, 288 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents first-hand accounts, memoirs, letters, and recent DNA evidence that points to Thomas Jefferson's thirty-eight-year affair with his slave Sally Hemings, and refutes claims to the contrary
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist leader who played a key role in helping enslaved people escape via the Underground Railroad."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting and edifying audio recordings.
Enter the world of a slave, with all the pathos, brutal honesty, and striving of the heart to breathe free. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland. During service to masters cruel and kind, he nevertheless learned to read and write. After suffering whippings, hunger, heat, cold, and grueling labor, he
...96) Harriet
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, the movie tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The life of Dave, an enslaved potter who inscribed his works with sayings and poems in spite of South Carolina's slave anti-literacy laws in the years leading up to the Civil War. Includes afterword, author's note, and sources"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad's leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the slave code quilts and hiding her maps within her paintings. She boldly embraces this calling after being told the shocking news that she can't bear children, but as the country steers toward bloody civil war, Sarah...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Learn more about Juneteenth, a holiday that celebrates the end of chattel slavery in the United States in this Step 3 History Reader"--
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