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Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Solenne Bonet is DoS--a Descendant of Slave--and has always known that her destiny would be in the service of men. At school, it is what she has been trained for, waiting for an algorithm to assign her to a white man, one of the thousands who sign up to be contract holders. She knows that there are girls who hope to be more than Maid or Mammy, who whisper about how they will get a white man to sign their freedom, how they will be sweet, but not...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2024],c2024
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Many descendants of enslaved people have little record of their family's ancestry. Follow one family's quest to discover their lost history and see how science and genealogy can help rebuild a family tree broken by slavery. Join filmmaker Byron Hurt at his extended family reunion as they celebrate the joy of family in the African diaspora and discover new details of their history that they thought were lost forever"--Container.
83) Tennessee Rose
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 9
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
139 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Although raised on a Southern plantation and owned by a Confederate officer, a Tennessee walking horse helps a slave during the Civil War.
84) 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....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
220 pages : chiefly illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An historical and imaginative tour-de-force, WAKE brings to light for the first time the existence of enslaved black women warriors, whose stories can be traced by carefully scrutinizing historical records; and where the historical record goes silent, WAKE reconstructs the likely past of two female rebels, Adono and Alele, on the slave ship The Unity. WAKE is a graphic novel that offers invaluable insight into the struggle to survive whole as a black...
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