Allende, Isabel.
Summary: "The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SPANISH 468 ALLWilliams-Garcia, Rita
Summary: In 1860 Louisiana, eighty-year-old Madame Sylvie decides to sit for a portrait, as horrific stories that span generations from the big house and the fields are revealed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WILJones, Edward P.
Summary: Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor -- William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation -- as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow, Caldonia, succumbs to profound grief, and things begin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONPhillips, Michael R.
Summary: "In a new series related to his bestselling Shenandoah sisters, Michael Phillips returns to the post-Civil War South in a story of forgiveness, danger and love"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION PhillipsClarke, Austin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAPhillips, Michael R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PHIPhillips, Michael R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PHIAustin, Lynn N.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Pub. 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC AustiPhillips, Michael R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PHIWarren, Robert Penn
Summary: Amantha Starr, who was sent to Ohio at age nine to receive an education, does not return to her father's Kentucky plantation until she learns of his death. At his graveside she is shocked to learn that her mother had been a plantation slave, and now she, Amantha, is being sold by her father's creditors. This is her story for a search of freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1955
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARPhillips, Michael R.
Summary: After her father is killed in the Civil War, Katie works with Mayme, a former slave, to keep the family plantation going, until a long-lost relative appears and threatens to ruin all they have worked for.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PHIEdwards, Cassie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EDWPhillips, Michael R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PHIPhillips, Michael R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PHISantiago, Esmeralda.
Summary: "Even as a young girl in nineteenth-century Spain, Ana Cubillas is drawn to the exotic island of Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de Leon. And in twin brothers Ramon and Inocente, both in love with Ana, she finds a way to get there: she marries Ramon and convinces the brothers that their destiny is in the remote sugar plantation they have inherited on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANGist, Deeanne.
Summary: "Set in 1640's Colonial Virginia, a marriage of convenience becomes most inconvenient when the bride proves more than the planter had bargained for"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GISPeart, Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan Pub. House 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEAJohnson, Sadeqa
Summary: Born on a plantation but set apart from the others by her mother's position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at eighteen and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail. 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Johnson 2021Atakora, Afia
Summary: "Like her mother, Rue is an all-knowing midwife, healer, and conjurer of curses on the plantation of Marse Charles. Moving back and forth in time between the years before and after the Civil War, this novel tells the story of Rue, the families she cares for, and the mysteries and secrets she knows about the plantation owner's daughter, Varina. At the heart of this story is the intimate bonds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction AtakoraGrissom, Kathleen
Summary: "The author of the New York Times bestseller and beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, whose deadly secret compels him to take a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad. Published in 2010, The Kitchen House became a grassroots bestseller. Fans connected so deeply to the book's characters that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GRIAustin, Lynn N.
Summary: In the aftermath of the Civil War, Josephine vows to rebuild her family's once-grand Virginia plantation. But in the face of such destruction, is redemption and faith in God possible? The difficult years of the Reconstruction era are brought to life by interweaving the stories of three women--daughter, mother, and freed slave--in a riveting tale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION AUSLlanos-Figueroa, Dahlma
Summary: "A groundbreaking historical novel from a heralded author that explores the seldom discussed Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade. At a time when importing humans from Africa had been prohibited by the Spanish Crown, Pola and other slave women provide their master with babies who are immediately taken away and sold on the auction block. Her serial rapes by a number of men are routine and often...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LLAMiles, Tiya
Summary: The Cherokee Rose, written by Tiya Miles, award-winning historian and recipient of a recent MacArthur "Genius Grant," explores territory reminiscent of the works of Alice Walker, Octavia Butler, and Louise Erdrich. This luminous but highly accessible work examines a little-known aspect of America's past slaveholding by Southern Creeks and Cherokees and its legacy in the lives of three young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John F. Blair, Publisher 2015