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Series
I survived volume 7
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
89 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
"It's 1863, and Thomas and his little sister, Birdie, have fled the farm where they were born and raised as slaves. Following the North Star, looking for freedom, they soon cross paths with a Union soldier. Everything changes: Corporal Henry Green brings Thomas and Birdie back to his regiment, and suddenly it feels like they've found a new home. Best of all, they don't have to find their way north alone--they're marching with the army. But then orders...
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While working for the Underground Railroad and helped escaped slaves to safety, William Still kept meticulous records. These notes originally were used to help reconnect families and document history, but Still later used these records to create The Underground Railroad, telling the stories of the disenfranchised. Said to have helped nearly eight-hundred slaves, Still depicts their stories of heartbreak, narrow escapes, and oppression.
Not only was...
23) 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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Series
Ember in the ashes volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Formats
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"Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution"--
25) Virginia slave narratives: a folk history of slavery in Virginia from interviews with former slaves
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Physical Desc
55 p. ; 24 cm.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Description
"A picture book biography sharing the inspiring and incredible true story of the nation's oldest student, Mary Walker, who learned to read at the age of 116"--
Author
Series
Kitchen house volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
368 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family.Orphaned while onboard ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia becomes deeply bonded to her adopted...
28) By darkness hid
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Series
Blood of kings volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 19
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Achan, born a slave and gifted with "bloodvoicing," wishes to escape his life of servitude where he is forced to consume a foul potion daily, and accepts an offer to be trained for the Kingsguard, but as the voices in his head grow, Vrell Sparrow, who hides by dressing like a boy, helps him learn to control his newfound ability.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
161 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Addy Walker's family is planning a dangerous escape from slavery during the summer of 1864. But before they can leave, the most terrible thing Addy can imagine happens--her Poppa and her brother, Sam, are sold! Addy and her Momma decide they must head out on their own. Although the road to freedom is difficult, Addy's new life brings new friends, school, and even the opportunity to help others. But when will her family be reunited?
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In a landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Foner gives us a life of Lincoln as it intertwined with slavery, the defining issue of the time and the tragic hallmark of American history. The author demonstrates how Lincoln navigated a dynamic political landscape deftly, moving in measured steps, often on a path forged by abolitionists and radicals in his party, and that Lincoln's greatness lay in his capacity for moral and political growth....
31) The bell rang
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Description
A slave family is distressed when they discover their son Ben has run away.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010, c2000
Physical Desc
247 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 21 cm.
Description
When he finds himself transported from Odyssey to the country of Marus in another world, James gradually becomes convinced that he has been sent by the Unseen One to help a young man who is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers.
34) Freedom bird
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm.
Description
In the antebellum South, two siblings shelter a large, mysterious, wounded bird and eventually follow it west toward freedom.
35) Song yet sung
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
A tale set against a backdrop of slave rights conflicts in the nineteenth-century Chesapeake Bay region finds young runaway Liz Spocott inadvertently inspiring a slave breakout from the attic prison of a notorious slave thief.
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Authorized by the Margaret Mitchell Estate, here is the first-ever prequel to one of the most beloved and bestselling novels of all time, Gone with the Wind. The critically acclaimed author of Rhett Butler's People magnificently recounts the life of Mammy, one of literature's greatest supporting characters, from her days as a slave girl to the outbreak of the Civil War. "Her story began with a miracle. " On the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue,...
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Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
14 audio discs (17.5 hrs.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bristol in 1787 is a booming city where power beckons those who dare to take risks. Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, needs capital and a well-connected wife. Marriage to Frances Scott is mutually convenient. Frances finds her life dependent on the respectable trade of sugar, run, and slaves. Into her world comes Mehuru, once a priest in an ancient African kingdom, now a slave in England. Despite the difference in status and their roots from opposite...
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