Somervill, Barbara A.
Summary: In 1839, African slaves who rebelled against their Spanish owners on the Amistad schooner were charged with murder in the United States. This book details the famous U.S. Supreme Court case that ultimately ruled in favor of the black captives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 326.0973 SOMNeshama, Rivvy
Summary: "Examines the life of enslaved African-American Nat Turner and the events leading up to the slave rebellion he led in 1831."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TURSummary: Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMIBrown, Vincent
Summary: "Tacky's revolt, in modern-day Jamaica, was the largest slave uprising in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic. A strikingly modern guerilla conflict, the revolt inspired both fear of and sympathy toward black lives. Vincent Brown offers a gripping account of the fighting and its reverberations across an interconnected world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 BROSinha, Manisha.
Summary: "Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 SINWalvin, James
Summary: In the three centuries following Columbus's landfall in the Americas, slavery became a critical institution across swathes of both North and South America. It saw twelve million Africans forced onto slave ships, and had seismic consequences for Africa while leading to the transformation of the Americas and to the material enrichment of the Western world. It was also largely unquestioned. Yet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 306.362 WALMcKissack, Pat
Summary: Tells the story of the slave ship, the Amistad, on which more than fifity kidnapped Africans revolted in order to regain their freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MCKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MCKEdwards, Judith.
Summary: Slaves rebelled and sometimes ran away from their plantations. Abolitionists battled to win victories in Congress to help free the slaves but the actions of both slaves and abolitionists helped lead to Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 326.8 EDWFranklin, John Hope
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.0049 FRAHuffman, Alan.
Summary: Isaac Ross died in 1836, and his will stipulated that his Mississippi plantation be sold and the proceeds used to provide passage for his slaves to the new colony of Liberia. This book discusses the battle over the will (which was ultimately upheld), and the results of those slaves' emigration to Liberia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.2 HUFGrandin, Greg
Summary: Documents an extraordinary early nineteenth-century event that inspired Herman Melville's "Beneto Cereno," tracing the cultural, economic, and religious clash that occurred aboard a distressed Spanish ship of West African pirates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.362 GRAKars, Marjoleine
Summary: "The story of a massive eighteenth-century slave rebellion in the Dutch colony of Berbice (now Guyana) which had been all but forgotten. Historian Marjoleine Kars recovers a riveting tale from the archives, including rare first-person accounts from African-born slaves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 KARRasmussen, Daniel
Summary: The author, a historian reveals the long forgotten history of America's largest slave uprising, the New Orleans slave revolt of 1811 that nearly toppled New Orleans and changed the course of American history. In this narrative, he offers new insight into American expansionism, the path to Civil War, and the earliest grassroots push to overcome slavery. Five hundred slaves, dressed in military...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Blk RasmussenRediker, Marcus.
Summary: Rediker turns his attention to the famed slave ship that set sail from Havana in 1839. Painstakingly researched, his account follows the slaves' point of view, from the joyous moments after they seized the ship through the harrowing court case that would become a touchstone in the struggle for civil rights.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 326.0973 REDStyron, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1967
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STYViehl, S. L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIELepore, Jill
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 LEPCable, Mary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 CABNelson, James L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NELGrandin, Greg
Summary: Grandin documents an extraordinary early nineteenth-century event that inspired Herman Melville's "Beneto Cereno," tracing the cultural, economic, and religious clash that occurred aboard a distressed Spanish ship of West African pirates.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.362 GRAHall, Rebecca
Summary: "An historical and imaginative tour-de-force, WAKE brings to light for the first time the existence of enslaved black women warriors, whose stories can be traced by carefully scrutinizing historical records; and where the historical record goes silent, WAKE reconstructs the likely past of two female rebels, Adono and Alele, on the slave ship The Unity. WAKE is a graphic novel that offers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 HALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 HALCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HALZoellner, Tom
Summary: "For five horrific weeks after Christmas in 1831, Jamaica was convulsed by an uprising of its enslaved people. What started as a peaceful labor strike quickly turned into a full-blown revolt, leaving hundreds of plantation houses smoking ruins. By the time British troops had put down the rebels, more than a thousand Jamaicans lay dead from summary executions and extrajudicial murder. While the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326.8 ZOESummary: America's Long Struggle against Slavery is a chance to survey the history of the American anti-slavery movement, from the dawn of the transatlantic slave trade during the late 15th century to the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and beyond. Taught by Professor Richard Bell of the University of Maryland, these 30 eye-opening lectures give an up-close view of a venal institution and the people who...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 AMECall number: DVD 973.7 AME
Holden, Vanessa M.
Summary: "The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner involved an entire community. Vanessa M. Holden rediscovers the women and children, free and enslaved, who lived in Southampton County before, during, and after the revolt. Mapping the region's multilayered human geography, Holden draws a fuller picture of the inhabitants, revealing not only their interactions with physical locations but also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2021