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Author
Publisher
Purple House Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Having learned from the father he admires so much that the world is filled with things too special for any one person to own, a boy is upset to hear that he and his father are owned by the man in the big house where they work.
22) Jefferson's sons
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2011
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Shows how Finnish mythology and folk tales were instrumental to how Tolkien created his own legendarium."—Boston Globe
Kullervo, son of Kalervo, is perhaps the darkest and most tragic of all J.R.R. Tolkien's characters. "Hapless Kullervo," as Tolkien called him, is a luckless orphan boy with supernatural powers and a tragic destiny.
Brought up in the homestead of the dark magician...
Kullervo, son of Kalervo, is perhaps the darkest and most tragic of all J.R.R. Tolkien's characters. "Hapless Kullervo," as Tolkien called him, is a luckless orphan boy with supernatural powers and a tragic destiny.
Brought up in the homestead of the dark magician...
Author
Series
Viking quest volume 5
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Five years after taking Bree and her brother Devin from Ireland to serve as tenth century Viking slaves, Mikkel decides whether to keep his promise to return the pair to their home and restore their freedom.
Author
Series
Bound by blood and sand volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Jae, a sixteen-year-old former slave girl has found magic and broken out of the curse imposed by the ruling class. To free the rest of her people, she may have to lead a violent revolution"--
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Language
English
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In debt, Kentucky farmer Arthur Shelby reluctantly decides to trade two of his slaves. The two, middle-aged Uncle Tom and young Harry, are to be sold to Mr. Haley, a detestable slave trader. Eliza, Harry's mother and Mrs. Shelby's maid, overhears the details of the arraignment, warns Uncle Tom and flees with Harry to the north. Eliza and Harry barely make it across the Ohio River before slave catchers can catch up with them. On the run, Eliza and...
33) Jubilee
Author
Language
English
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Description
Fact-based novel that chronicles the experiences of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his slave mistress, discussing her life as slave during the Civil War, and as a woman freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
34) Freedom over me
Author
Publisher
A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book, Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
"Using original slave auction and plantation estate documents, contrasts the monetary value of a slave with the priceless value of life experiences and dreams that a slave owner could never take away"--
37) Freedom's wings
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Language
English
Description
A nine-year-old slave keeps a diary of his journey to freedom along the Underground Railroad in 1857.
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Language
English
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"Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world. Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity...
39) The Pox party
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Series
Language
English
Description
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
40) The white rose
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English
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"After the Duchess of the Lake catches Violet with Ash, the hired companion at the Palace of the Lake, Violet has no choice but to escape the Jewel or face certain death, so along with Ash and her best friend, Raven, Violet runs away from her unbearable life of servitude"--
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