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Author
Series
Liberty bell volume 1
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Daniel Bradford agrees to a seventeen year contract as an indentured servant in Virginia in order to get out of Dartmoor Prison. After cruel years of slavery he marries, meets George Washington and Sam Adams, and finds his sons are involved in the Sons of Liberty.
645) The Spartacus war
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
From the Publisher: The Spartacus War is the extraordinary story of the most famous slave rebellion in the ancient world, the fascinating true story behind a legend that has been the inspiration for novelists, filmmakers, and revolutionaries for 2,000 years. Starting with only seventy-four men, a gladiator named Spartacus incited a rebellion that threatened Rome itself. With his fellow gladiators, Spartacus built an army of 60,000 soldiers and controlled...
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Huckleberry Finn : The well-known tale of the carefree Huck Finn and his adventures on his raft with the runaway slave, Jim, as they sail down the Mississippi.
Adventures of Tom Sawyer : Tom tricks the neighborhood kids into whitewashing the fence for him, later, he runs away on a raft to become a pirate. He then attends his own funeral.
Author
Series
Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 12
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
The Wayfarer Inn is hosting the debut for a traveling theater company, but acts of sabotage soon derail the production. Meanwhile, Harry gives the inn a box of old books from his antique shop that includes a battered fragment of an antique script. A clue on the cover makes the Inn Crowd wonder if it has something to do with the inn's role as a station on the Underground Railroad.
Author
Description
Bass Reeves was born into slavery. And though the laws of his country enslaved him and his mother, when he became a free man he served the law with such courage and honor that he was known and respected all over the Indian Territory. Gary Paulsen's dramatic account of the life of Bass Reeves, through stories both real and imagined, makes him come alive as a boy and a man.
653) Cold Rock River
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Adie Jenkins, a married seventeen-year old with a new baby, discovers the diary of a pregnant teenage slave written as the Civil War was winding down. As the story unfolds Adie wonders if her midwife, Willa Mae Satterfiled, may be the daughter of the slave girl.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"What was the Emancipation Proclamation and why was it important? How did it affect the Southern states' ability to fight in the Civil War? How did the proclamation change the lives of black slaves in the South? When President Abraham Lincoln created the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, it had far-reaching effects on the course of the Civil War and U.S. history. Using an inquiry-based approach, primary sources, and quick-reference infographics,...
656) Grass
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
Grass is a powerful anti-war graphic novel, offering up firsthand the life story of a Korean girl named Okseon Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the second World War - a disputed chapter in 20th century Asian history. Beginning in Lee's childhood, Grass shows the leadup to World War II from a child's vulnerable perspective, detailing how one person experienced the Japanese occupation and the widespread suffering...
657) Willow
Author
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In 1848 Willow, a fifteen-year-old educated slave girl faces an inconceivable choice -- between bondage and freedom, family and love -- as free born, seventeen-year-old Cato, a black man, takes it upon himself to sneak as many fugitive slaves to freedom as he can on the Mason-Dixon Line.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"The life story of Harriet Tubman in graphic novel format. Tells the story of a woman who not only escaped from slavery in 1849 but also risked her life to return to the American South in order to free others from bondage. Includes details about her childhood on a Maryland plantation, her work with the Underground Railroad to help enslaved persons escape to freedom, and her years as a champion of women's rights."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
American crossroads volume 14
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"This beautifully written book tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. It is the story of Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, and Doll, an African slave he acquired in the late 1790s. Over the next thirty years, Shoe Boots and Doll lived together as master and slave and also as lifelong partners who, with their children and grandchildren, experienced key events in American history--including slavery,...
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