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Author
Language
English
Description
A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations.
At once familiar and...
22) Buoyancy
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Central Khmer
Description
This story of a Cambodian teenager sold into forced labor on a Thai fishing boat is a passionate testimony against social injustice and a moving coming-of-age tale about a boy whose humanity is put to the test.
23) Song yet sung
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tale set against a backdrop of slave rights conflicts in the nineteenth-century Chesapeake Bay region finds young runaway Liz Spocott inadvertently inspiring a slave breakout from the attic prison of a notorious slave thief.
25) Chains
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.
27) Show way
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
Author
Publisher
Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The 1619 Project's lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the United States"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths, exploring why they had their day for so long, and explaining why the ugly fight about its meaning is now coming to a head. Forget the Alamo provocatively explains the true story of the battle against the backdrop of Texas's struggle for independence, then shows us how the myth got made in the Jim Crow South of the late 19th and early 20th century....
Author
Language
English
Description
"Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take....
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
192 p. : ill., maps, music ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1859, twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.
33) Docile
Author
Publisher
A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
492 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"There is no consent under capitalism. Docile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles. To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service. To be a Docile is to sell yourself to pay your parents' debts and buy...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
483 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a nation of warriors where weakness is shunned and all crimes, no matter how minor, are punishable by beheading, young Jebel Rum, along with a slave who is fated to be sacrificed, sets forth on a quest to petition the Fire God for invincibility, but when the long and arduous journey is over, Jebel has learned much about fairness and the value of life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
363 pages (large print) ; 23cm.
Language
English
Description
"John Ware, a well-known, highly loved, and acclaimed black cowboy, arrived in Alberta at the beginning of the extraordinary ranching story on the grasslands. He faced and conquered snowstorms, vast distances, rough horses, not to mention a few rough men. As John participated in the building of some of the great Alberta ranches, he faced racism and delayed, but not forgotten, dreams of a ranch and family of his own. Being one of only a handful of...
Author
Language
English
Description
"All of London is abuzz with the scandalous case of Frannie Langton, accused of the brutal double murder of her employers, renowned scientist George Benham and his eccentric French wife, Marguerite. Crowds pack the courtroom, eagerly following every twist, while the newspapers print lurid theories about the killings and the mysterious woman being tried at the Old Bailey ... But Frannie claims she cannot recall what happened that fateful evening,...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The dramatic story of Liberia’s early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon bond. Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. Norman Aragon, the child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave from...
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.
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