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Author
Series
Guardian series (Mary Jo Putney) volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of George Dinning, a freed slave who was wrongfully convicted of murder after defending himself against a white mob and later won damages against them in court with the help of a Confederate war hero-turned-lawyer.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Parallel to their story runs a forbidden romance between two Confederate soldiers. The young men, recently returned...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Based on the true story of Mary Bowser, a freed slave who returns to Virginia to spy on the Confederates, The secrets of Mary Bowser is the powerful story of a woman who must sacrifice her freedom to truly achieve it"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A former slave rises above the harsh realities of being owned and colonialism on Montserrat working hard to buy freedom for herself, her mother, and her sister and becoming an entrepreneur, merchant, hotelier, and planter. Based on the true life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas"--
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Priscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858. Her life story, which she recounted in an oral history decades later, captures the complexity of emancipation. Based on interviews that Joyner and formerly enslaved people had with the Depression-era Federal Writers Project, historian Carole Emberton draws a portrait of the steps they took in order to feel free, something no legal mandate could instill. Joyner's life exemplifies the deeply...
13) Willow
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Taught to read and write by a master whom she believes is good to her, teenager Willow lives on one side of the Mason-Dixon Line fearing "rebel slave" runaways before her life intersects with freeborn Cato, who has dedicated his life to sneaking fugitive slaves to freedom.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant synthesis of African and African-American history that shows how slavery differed in different regions of the country, and how the Africans and their descendants influenced the culture, commerce, and laws of the early United States"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the Freedman's Colony of Roanoke Island, a haven for the recently emancipated, the four March sisters--Meg, Joanna, Bethlehem, and Amethyst--come into their own as independent young Black women together facing love, sickness, heartbreak, and new horizons.
Author
Series
Crossing Ebenezer Creek volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Freed from slavery, Mariah and her young brother Zeke join Sherman's march through Georgia, where Mariah meets a free black named Caleb and dares to imagine the possibility of true love, but hope can come at a cost.
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