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1) Kindred
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
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Description
When a plantation proprietor and former slave--now possessing slaves of his own--dies, his household falls apart in the wake of a slave rebellion and corrupt underpaid patrollers who enable free black people to be sold into slavery.
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It is through her father, renowned artist Oscar Sparrow, that Lina Sparrow discovers a controversy rocking the art world: art historians now suspect that the revered paintings of LuAnne Bell were actually the work of her house slave, Josephine. A descendant of Josephine's would be the perfect face for the class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for slavery-- if Lina can find one. But nothing is known about Josephine's fate following LuAnne Bell's...
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Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Mississippi plantation mistress Amanda Satterfield loses her daughter to cholera after her husband refuses to treat her for what he considers to be a "slave disease." Insane with grief, Amanda takes a newborn slave child as her own and names her Granada, much to the outrage of her husband and the amusement of their white neighbors. Seventy-five years later, Granada, now known as Gran Gran, is still living on the plantation and must revive the buried...
Author
Series
Caroline Ferriday volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Martha Hall Kelly, introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday, an American philanthropist who helped young girls released from Ravensbruck concentration camp. Now, in Sunflower Sisters, Kelly tells the story of her ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse who joins the war effort during the Civil War, and how her calling leads her to cross paths with Jemma, a young enslaved girl who is sold off and conscripted into the army,, and Ann-May Wilson, a...
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