Slaves - United States
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The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War
$37.00 Add to cartA major literary moment: after being lost to history for more than a century, The Road to Dawn uncovers the incredible story of the real-life slave who inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
-He rescued 118 ens- Author: Brock, Jared A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1541773926
- Language: English
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Black Indian Slave Narratives
$17.95 Add to cartFew people realize that Native Americans were enslaved right alongside the African Americans in this country. Fewer still realize that many Native Americans owned African Americans and Native American
- Series: Real Voices, Real History Series
- Author: Minges, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0895872986
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$5.95 Add to cart“One of the major autobiographies of the African-American tradition.”–Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
“It has been painful to me, in many ways, to recall the dreary years I passed in bondage. I would gladly f- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0451531469
- Language: English
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Yonder
$27.00 Read moreThe Water Dancer meets The Prophets in this spare, gripping, and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid-19th century.
They call th- Author: Asim, Jabari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 198216316X
- Language: English
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Someone Knows My Name
$17.95 Read moreKidnapped from Africa as a child, Aminata Diallo is enslaved in South Carolina but escapes during the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan she becomes a scribe for the British, recording the n
- Author: Hill, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393333094
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself
$15.00 Add to cartOne of the central firsthand accounts of slavery in America
A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacobs’s classic- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 1, 2000
- ISBN10: 0140437959
- Language: English
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The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read
$18.99 Add to cartImagine learning to read at the age of 116 Discover the true story of Mary Walker, the nation’s oldest student who did just that, in this picture book from a Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator and a… [more below]
- Author: Hubbard, Rita Lorraine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 7, 2020
- ISBN10: 1524768286
- Language: English
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
$25.00 Add to cart**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History**
“Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped sl- Author: Blight, David W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1416590323
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$6.00 Add to cartThe true story of an individual’s struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains among the few extant slave narratives written by a woman. Th
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0486419312
- Language: English
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Yonder
$16.99 Add to cartThe Water Dancer meets The Prophets in this spare, gripping, and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid-19th century.
They call th- Author: Asim, Jabari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982163178
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
$14.00 Add to cartAn updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials
The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative powerfu- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 28, 2014
- ISBN10: 0143107305
- Language: English
