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"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation...
5) Freedom bird
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the antebellum South, two siblings shelter a large, mysterious, wounded bird and eventually follow it west toward freedom.
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
After Cora, a slave in pre-Civil War Georgia, escapes with another slave, they seek the help of the Underground Railroad as they flee from state to state and try to evade a slave catcher, Ridgeway, who is determined to return them to the South.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum/Atheneum Books for young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The lives of four characters, including cemetery thief Cade Curtis, a runaway slave, and an illegally captured ocelot, flow together across time through their connections to the Houston bayou and an angel carved from Georgia marble.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"From the creators of Voices from the Oregon Trail and Colonial Voices, an unflinching story of two young runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad, told in their voices and those who helped and hindered them It's the 1850s and enslaved siblings Jeb and Mattie are about the make a break for freedom. The pair travel north from Maryland to New Bedford, Massachusetts along the Underground Railroad. Each spread tells about a step of their journey through...
14) Good fortune
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Brutally kidnapped from her African village and shipped to America, a young girl struggles to come to terms with her new life as a slave, gradually rising from working in the fields to the master's house, secretly learning to read and write, until, risking everything, she escapes to seek freedom in the North.
Author
Series
Will Rees mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A slaveholder from Virginia is found dead in Maine shortly after Will Rees helps escort a slave and her child to safety. Was he searching for the slave? The slaveholder’s sister arrives demanding justice, but Rees is torn. Should he help find the killer of the notoriously cruel man or let them go free?"--
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.
17) The house girl
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Language
English
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Lina Sparrow, an ambitious first-year associate in a Manhattan law firm, searches for the perfect plaintiff to lead a historic class-action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars in reparations for descendants of American slaves.
Publisher
Showtime Networks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Ethan Hawke stars as abolitionist John Brown in this Limited Event Series based on the award-winning novel. The story is told from the point of view of 'Onion,' a fictional enslaved boy who becomes a member of Brown's motley family of abolitionist soldiers battling slavery in Kansas, and eventually finds himself in the famous 1859 Army depot raid at Harpers Ferry, an inciting incident of the Civil War. It's a humorous and dramatic tale of Antebellum...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grace has grown up in slavery. As difficult as life on the Virginia plantation is, at least she has her family: Momma, her younger brothers, Thomas and Willy, Aunt Sara, and Uncle Jim. When she overhears Master and Mistress plotting to sell her brothers, she and her family decide to run away that same night. But without time to plan their escape and go north along the Underground Railroad, their only choice is to head deep into the woods of the Dismal...
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