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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Description
On Sarah Grimke's eleventh birthday, she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, a Charleston slave, who is to be her handmaid. Follow their journey over the next thirty-five years as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other's destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love.
From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Presents the remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled white man and William posing as "his" slave.
"The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as “his” slave. In 1848, a year of international...
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books, a division of Random House Canada Limited, a Penguin Random House Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
An account of the lives of 14 female abolitionists, some of whom were slaves themselves, includes portraits of Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Freeman and Harriet Tubman.
Author
Series
Refiner's fire volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Caroline Fletcher, the daughter of a wealthy family in Richmond, has never questioned her father's right to own slaves. But after a lengthy visit to her uncle's home in Boston, she learns of the abolitionist movement. Now, knowing that slavery is against God's will, she must risk betraying the people she loves to obey her convictions.
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Examines the events and key figures behind the formation and operation of the Underground Railroad, the secretive and illegal organization that helped American slaves escape to freedom in the northern United States and Canada.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Explores the Civil War and the anti-slavery movement, specifically highlighting the plan to help abolish slavery by surrounding the slave states with territories of freedom and discusses the possibility of what could have been a more peaceful alternativeto the war.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Frederick Douglass (18181895) is best known for the telling of his own emancipation. But there is much more to Douglasss story than his time spent enslaved and his famous autobiography. Facing Frederick captures the whole complicated, and at times perplexing, person that he was. Statesman, suffragist, writer, and newspaperman, this book focuses on Douglass the man rather than the historical icon.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the life of the man who escaped slavery in Maryland to become a speaker and writer for abolition and the rights of African Americans and women, focusing on his childhood and youth as a slave.
Author
Publisher
Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Jays of New York were a preeminent founding family. John Jay, diplomat, Supreme Court justice, and coauthor of the Federalist Papers, and his children and grandchildren helped chart the course of the Early American Republic. Liberty's Chain forges a new path for thinking about slavery and the nation's founding. John Jay served as the inaugural president of a pioneering antislavery society. His descendants, especially his son William Jay and his...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When, in 1879, a bust in his likeness was placed at the University of Rochester, Frederick Douglass wrote: "Incidents of this character do much amaze me. It is not, however, the height to which I have risen, but the depth from which I have come that amazes me." This biography tells the story of his ascent from slavery.
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