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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. Things are set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major...
3) Harriet
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 5 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of American abolitionist Harriet Tubman as she escapes from slavery and leads other slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A deeply entrenched institution, slavery lived on legally and commercially even in the northern states that had abolished it after the American Revolution. Slaves could be found in the streets of New York well after abolition, traveling with owners doing business with the city's major banks, merchants, and manufacturers. New York was also home to the North’s largest free black community, making it a magnet for fugitive slaves seeking refuge. Slave...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
1919
Physical Desc
ix, 245 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three days after this event Brown and his sons with two or three others made a midnight raid upon their pro-slavery neighbors living in the Pottawatomie valley and slew five men. The authors of this deed were not certainly known until the publication of a confession of one of the party in 1879, twenty years after the chief actor had won the reputation of a martyr to the cause of liberty. The Browns, however, were suspected at the time.
6) Lincoln
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows Abraham Lincoln during the last months of the American Civil War and his fight to pass the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery.
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xxiv, 273 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A "conductor" based in Philadelphia, Still (1821–1902) helped guide fugitive slaves to safety in the years before the Civil War. He also created this unforgettable history, a collection of carefully preserved letters, newspaper articles, and firsthand accounts about refugees' hardships, narrow escapes, and deadly struggles. Over 50 illustrations.
Author
Publisher
G. Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
108 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the African-American woman who escaped from slavery, led slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad, aided Northern troops during the Civil War, and worked for women's suffrage.
Author
Publisher
HarperFlamingo
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 48
Physical Desc
758 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cloudsplitter is narrated by the enigmatic Owen Brown, last surviving son of America's most famous and still controversial political terrorist and martyr, John Brown. Cloudsplitter vividly re-creates the antislavery movement of the 1840s and traces it through the brutal guerrilla warfare of Bloody Kansas, culminating in a powerful re-creation of Brown's insurrectionary raid on Harpers Ferry.
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
117 pages : chiefly illusrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Prophet against Slavery illustrates the life and times of an eighteenth-century dwarf abolitionist who performed guerrilla theater against slaveowners and became one of the first to demand immediate and abolition"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxix, 449 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Fr�emont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple."--
16) The counter-revolution of 1776: slave resistance and the origins of the United States of America
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 349 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British. In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne shows that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders, and sparking the colonial revolt....
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