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by
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
(1,170)
Summary: Born into a life of slavery, Ona Judge eventually grew up to be George and Martha Washington's "favored" dower slave. When she was told that she was going to be given as a wedding gift to Martha...
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BOOK
Call #: J B JUDGE
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Margaret Whitman Blair
(50)
Summary: Presentation of the little-known story of the American Revolution told from the perspectives of the African-American slaves who fought on the side of the British Royal Army in exchange for a promise of freedom.
BOOK
Call #: J 973.3 BLA
Location: Junior Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Carin T Ford
Series:
The Civil War Library
(7)
Summary: Explains the early plight of the slaves and their run for freedom during and after the Civil War.
BOOK
Call #: J 973.7115 FOR
Location: Junior Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sherri Winston
Series:
Great Escapes - #2
(43)
Summary: In this retelling of an episode from "Uncle Tom's Cabin," the slave Eliza Harris resolves to escape with her two-year-old son across the frozen Ohio River to prevent her master from selling the boy....
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BOOK
Call #: J F GREAT
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Nikki Shannon Smith
Series:
Girls Survive
(157)
Summary: Twelve-year-old Ann understands there is only one thing to be grateful for as a slave: having her family together. But when the master falls into debt, he plans to sell both Ann and her younger...
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BOOK
Call #: J F GIRLS
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Henry Wiencek
(756)
Summary: "Master of the Mountain," Henry Wiencek's eloquent, persuasive book--based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in...
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BOOK
Call #: 973.46 WIE
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Cynthia Fitterer Klingel
Summary: A biography of the runaway slave who risked her life to help other slaves escape to freedom.
BOOK
Call #: J B TUBMAN
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Series:
Who Was-- ?
(2,093)
Summary: A biography of the ninteenth-century woman who escaped slavery and helped many other slaves get to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
BOOK
Call #: J B WHO
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
David A Adler
(59)
Summary: A comprehensive introduction to the life and achievements of the heroic former slave details how after managing her own escape, Harriet Tubman returned thirteen times to guide other slaves to freedom...
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BOOK
Call #: J B TUBMAN
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: Nat Turner is a literate American slave and preacher. His financially strained owner accepts an offer to use Nat's preaching to subdue unruly slaves. But as Nat witnesses countless atrocities, he...
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BLU-RAY
Call #: BLU DRAMA BIRTH
Location: Blu-rays Drama
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: Nat Turner is a literate American slave and preacher. His financially strained owner accepts an offer to use Nat's preaching to subdue unruly slaves. But as Nat witnesses countless atrocities, he...
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DVD
Call #: DVD DRAMA BIRTH
Location: DVDs Drama
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, the movie tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of...
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BLU-RAY
Call #: BLU DRAMA HARRIET
Location: Blu-rays Drama
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, the movie tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of...
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DVD
Call #: DVD DRAMA HARRIET
Location: DVDs Drama
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Natasha Boyd
(35,728)
Summary: The story of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, who ran her father's plantation outside Charleston, South Carolina in the 1700s and struck a bargain with the plantation's slaves--teach her how to make indigo and she would teach them to read.
BOOK
Call #: F BOYD
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Edward P Jones
(40,329)
Summary: 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.
BOOK
Call #: F JONES
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sadeqa Johnson
(44,693)
Summary: Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. Instead she finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil's...
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BOOK
Call #: F JOHNSON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Mike Carey
(399)
Summary: In the country of Ossaniul, there is a fortress that is as disproportionate as it is inaccessible: the Highest House. Its masters, the noble family of Aldercrest, reign over a veritable army of...
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BOOK
Call #: 741.59 CAR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Rachel A Koestler-Grack
Summary: On June 19, 1865 -- two years after the Emancipation Proclamation -- Galveston, Texas became the last place in the country to learn the slaves were free. Today, Juneteenth is a joyful occasion with...
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BOOK
Call #: J READER 394.263 KOE
Location: Junior Readers Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Tammye Huf
(962)
Summary: When Henry O'Toole escapes the Irish famine and sails to America, he doesn't expect the anti-Irish prejudices that await him. Determined to never starve again, he changes his name to Henry Taylor to...
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BOOK
Call #: F HUF
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kathleen Grissom (read by Orlagh Cassidy )
Series:
Kitchen House Series
(260,507)
Summary: "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 a...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F GRISSOM
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Craig Thompson
(40,470)
Summary: "Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts, harems, and modern industrial clutter, Habibi tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance, by circumstance,...
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BOOK
Call #: 741.59 THO
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kathleen Grissom
Series:
Kitchen House Series
(259,510)
Summary: "In 1790, Lavinia, a seven-year-old Irish orphan with no memory of her past, arrives on a tobacco plantation where she is put to work as an indentured servant with the kitchen house slaves. Though...
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BOOK
Call #: F GRISSOM
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Laurie Halse Anderson (read by Madisun Leigh)
Series:
Seeds Of America Series
(53,884)
Summary: The story of a 13-year-old African-American girl who is sold to a cruel, loyalist family living in New York City at the start of the Revolutionary War. Asked to spy on her owners for the Patriot...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F ANDERSON YA
Location: YA CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: In a remote mountain tribe, the young hunter D'Leh finds his heart's passion in the beautiful Evolet. But when a band of mysterious warlords raid their village and kidnaps Evolet, D'Leh leads a small...
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BLU-RAY
Call #: BLU ACT/ADV TEN
Location: Blu-rays Action/Adventure
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: "Judah Ben-Hur [is] a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, vengeance against his tormentors during a furious arena chariot race and fateful encounters with Jesus Christ"--Container.
DVD
Call #: DVD CLASSIC BEN-HUR
Location: DVDs Classics
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
William Styron
(14,614)
Summary: In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery. The revolt was led by a...
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BOOK
Call #: F STYRON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Claire Rudolf Murphy
(45)
Summary: Sacajawea, a Shoshoni woman, and York, a slave, assist Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their westward expedition; Sacajawea using her knowledge of the land, and York using his superior hunting...
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BOOK
Call #: J B SACAGAWEA
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: Animated biography of Harriet Tubman as a DVD storybook.
DVD
Call #: DVD FAMILY INSPIRING
Location: DVDs Family
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: Based on the true story of Solomon Northup. It is 1841, and Northup, an accomplished, free citizen of New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Stripped of his identity and deprived of all...
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DVD
Call #: DVD DRAMA TWELVE
Location: DVDs Drama
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Marlen Suyapa Bodden
(8,558)
Summary: "When prestigious plantation owner Cornelius Allen gives his daughter Clarissa's hand in marriage, she takes with her a gift: Sarah, her slave and her half-sister. Raised by an educated mother,...
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BOOK
Call #: F BODDEN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: The harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to contact his family, and fearing for his life if he told...
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BLU-RAY
Call #: BLU DRAMA TWELVE
Location: Blu-rays Drama
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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Summary: Django, a former slave turned hired gun, heads back to the plantation to free his wife, Broomhilda, from the tyrannical plantation owner Calvin Candie, with the help of a German bounty hunter, Dr. King Shultz.
DVD
Call #: DVD ACT/ADV DJANGO
Location: DVDs Action/Adventure
copies in: 1 of 1
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