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Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
44 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 29 cm.
Description
Discusses the changing roles, rights, and contributions of Afro-Americans in the United States during the colonial period from 1607 to 1763. Also includes a chronology of significant events.
5) Remembering slavery: African Americans talk about their personal experiences of slavery and freedom
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
355 p. : ill.
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 25 cm.
Description
Recounts the history of slavery and the slave trade in the United States discussing their causes, the slave experience, the Civil War, and Reconstruction and its aftermath.
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Description
Examines the story of African-American runaway slaves who fought on the side of the British Royal Army during the American Revolution in exchange for the promise of freedom.
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Formats
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A landmark history the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early twentieth century.
Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering The Other Slavery, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. There was no abolitionist movement to protect the tens...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
'How the Word is Passed' is Clint Smith's revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks - those that are honest about the past and those that are not - that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nations collective history, and ourselves.
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