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Library of America ; 247Brown, William Wells
Summary: Includes memoirs, travel writings, fiction, and history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBrown, William Wells
Summary: "At a slave auction, a beautiful teenage girl, her sister, and her mother are sold as William Wells Brown's 1853 novel Clotel begins. In making his title character the daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Brown takes advantage of a scandalous and - until recently - unconfirmed rumor. Clotel's new owner falls in love with her, gets her pregnant, seems to promise marriage - then sells her. A fast-paced...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBennett, Brit
Summary: Separated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENWalker, Margaret
Summary: The fortunes of a mulatto girl--as a slave during the Civil War and then as a woman freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1966
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALClarke, Breena
Summary: "Russell's Knob is not paradise. But already in 1849 this New Jersey highlands settlement is home to a diverse population of blacks, whites, and reds who have intermarried and lived in relative harmony for generations. It is a haven for Dossie Bird, who has escaped north along the Underground Railroad and now feels the embrace of the Smoot family. Duncan Smoot presides as accidental patriarch,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Clarke 2014Randall, Alice.
Summary: " ... story of a strong, resourceful black woman breaking away from the damaging world of the Old South to emerge into her own, a person capable of not only receiving but giving love, as daughter, lover, and mother"--Container.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2001