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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Learn about the confounding life of Roger Taney, who as a young man turned his back on his family's tobacco plantation and manumitted many of his own slaves. Yet, as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he dramatically expanded the rights of slaveholders through infamous decisions such as Dred Scott v. Sanford.
Author
Series
Queen's thief volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped and sold into slavery, Sophos, an unwilling prince, tries to save his country from being destroyed by rebellion and exploited by the conniving Mede empire.
3) The deep
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
The historian of the water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slaves thrown overboard by slavers keeps all the memories of her people both painful and miraculous, until she discovers that their future lies in returning to the past.
Author
Publisher
Truth to Power, an imprint of Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A combat veteran examines the history of the United States through an alternate lens that emphasizes our history of slavery, indigenous genocide, and militarist imperialism to present a more balanced view of the American story.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The history of the early 21st century may show racism is alive and well, but so, too, is slavery. Around the world, 20 to 40 million people are enslaved. To conclude this series, survey several case studies of slaves around the world and in the United States. What lessons can we draw from history?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
11) Chains
Author
Series
Seeds of America trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When their owner dies at the start of the Revolution, Isabel and her younger sister are sold to Loyalists in New York, where Isabel is offered the chance to spy for the Patriots.
12) 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.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Gettysburg is often described as the turning point of the war. It took place against a background of uncertainty and unrest in the North and was the result of a major strategic debate in the South. Why did Lee go north? Was his strategic thinking sound? What swung the three-day battle's outcome? How did people on either side view Gettysburg?
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Born the daughter of an enslaved woman and a Louisiana plantation owner, Jeannette Baebinn is raised alongside her white half sister--until her father suddenly dies. His vindictive wife refuses twelve-year-old Jeannette her inheritance and sells her into slavery. Jeannette escapes enslavement and travels to Ohio, all while searching for purpose, love, and her place in a country torn asunder by the burgeoning Civil War. Everything seems to fall into...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sitting in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is a rough cotton bag, called "Ashley's Sack," embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love passed down through generations. In 1850s South Carolina, just before nine-year-old Ashley was sold, her mother, Rose, gave her a sack filled with just a few things as a token of her love. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter,...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized look at the last twenty years of Thomas Jefferson's life at Monticello through the eyes of three of his slaves, two of whom were his sons by his slave, Sally Hemings.
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