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Large type books Ontario, Southwestern History 19th century Fiction Ontario, Southwestern Race relations History 19th century Fiction Race relations Slavery Slavery Southern States History 19th century Fiction Southern States Southern States History 19th century Fiction Southern States Race relations History 19th century Fiction Southwestern OntarioKidd, Ronald
Summary: Hoping that the arrival of Freedom Riders in her town will help her community shed its antiquated views, thirteen-year-old Billie is forced to confront her own mindset when things turn tragic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KIDHenderson, Eleanor
Summary: "Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: In a house full of secrets, two babies - one light-skinned, the other dark - are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the road to the nearby town. In the aftermath, the farm's inhabitants are forced to contend with their complicity in a series of events that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, a trademark of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HENThomas, Kai
Summary: "Young Lensinda Martin is a protegee of a crusading Black journalist and activist in mid-18th century southwestern Ontario, finding a home in a community founded by veterans of the War of 1812 and refugees from the slave-owning states of the American south--whose agents do not always stay on their side of the border. One night, a neighbouring farmer summons Lensinda after a slave hunter is shot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Canada 2023