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African Americans Biography African Americans Civil rights History 19th century African Americans Civil rights History 20th century African Americans History 1863-1877 African Americans Legal status, laws, etc History 19th century African Americans Politics and government 19th century Antislavery movements United States History 19th century Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) United States United States Race relations History 19th centuryMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: Presents the life and accomplishments of Frederick Douglass, a self-educated slave in the South who grew up to become a leader in the abolitionist movement, a celebrated writer, an esteemed speaker, and a social reformer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DOUSummary: "In 2011, construction workers were shocked to uncover the remains of a woman in an abandoned lot in Queens, New York. Follow forensic archaeologist Scott Warnasch and a team of historians and scientists as they investigate this woman' story, revealing a vivid picture of what life was like for free African American people in the North."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: "From the revered historian--winner of nearly every award given in his field--the long-awaited conclusion of his magisterial three-volume history of slavery in Western culture that has been more than fifty years in the making. David Brion Davis is one of the foremost historians of our time, and in this final volume in his monumental trilogy on slavery in Western culture he offers highly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.362 DAVCox, Anna-Lisa
Summary: "The American frontier is one of our most cherished and enduring national images. We think of the early settlers who tamed the wilderness and built the bones of our great country as courageous, independent--and white. In this groundbreaking work of deep historical research, Anna-Lisa Cox shows that this history simply isn't accurate. In fact, she has found a stunning number of black settlements...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 COXTate, Don
Summary: Presents the life of black abolitionist William Still, son of an escaped slave, who helped his people through his work with Philadelphia's Anti-slavery Society and the Underground Railroad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 STIMichna-Bales, Jeanine
Summary: "They left in the middle of the night--often carrying little more than the knowledge to follow the North Star. An estimated one hundred thousand slaves between 1830 and the end of the Civil War in 1865 embarked on a journey of untold hardship in search offreedom, many with the aid of the Underground Railroad. Through Darkness to Light : Seeking Freedom on the Underground Railroad imagines how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2017
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.7 MICWashington, John E.
Summary: "Originally published in 1942 and now reprinted for the first time, They Knew Lincoln is a classic in African American history and Lincoln studies. Part memoir and part history, the book is an account of John E. Washington's childhood among African Americans in Washington, DC, and of the black people who knew or encountered Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. Washington recounted stories told by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM WASDuane, Anna Mae
Summary: "Educated for Freedom" explores the story of two fugitive schoolboys who grew up to change a nation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DUALewis, Cicely
Summary: "The White House tells the history of the United States, including slavery. Enslaved people were involved with every stage of building the structure. Learn more about the president's home and how to honor this history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.3 LEWWilliams, Kidada E.
Summary: "The story of Reconstruction is often told from the perspective of the politicians, generals, and journalists whose accounts claim an outsized place in collective memory. But this pivotal era looked very different to African Americans in the South transitioning from bondage to freedom after 1865. They were besieged by a campaign of white supremacist violence that persisted through the 1880s and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 WILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 WILSmith, Charles R.
Summary: Constructed brick by brick, the White House was created by human hands, many of them slaves', whose hard labor helped create the symbol of this country, in the story of how the official residence and principal workplace of the United States presidents was built.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.302 SMIDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
Summary: A definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War's aftermath and the legacy of racism in America. Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois's now classic Black Reconstruction offered a revelatory new assessment of Reconstruction--and of American democracy itself. One of the towering African American thinkers and activists of the twentieth century,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.81 DU BTobin, Jacqueline
Summary: The Underground Railroad was the passage to freedom for many slaves, but it was rife with dangers. While there were dedicated conductors and safe houses, there were also arduous nights in the mountains and days in threatening towns. For those who made it to Midnight, the code name given to Detroit, the Detroit River became their Jordan. And Canada became the Promised Land where they could live...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7115 TOBGoldstone, Lawrence
Summary: "Beginning in 1876, the Court systematically dismantled both the equal protection guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment, at least for African-Americans, and what seemed to be the guarantee of the right to vote in the Fifteenth. And so, of the more than 500,000 African-Americans who had registered to vote across the South, the vast majority former slaves, by 1906, less than ten percent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 GOLDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 DUBMull, Carol E.
Summary: "This book is the first comprehensive exploration of abolitionism and the network of escape from slavery in the state. First-person accounts are interwoven with an expansive historical overview of national events to offer a fresh examination of Michigan's critical role in the movement to end American slavery"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McFarland & Co., Publishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7115 MULCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.7115 MULMcDaniel, W. Caleb (William Caleb)
Summary: "In Sweet Taste of Liberty, W. Caleb McDaniel focuses on the experience of a freed slave who was sold back into slavery, eventually freed again, and who then sued the man who had sold her back into bondage. Henrietta Wood was born into slavery, but in 1848, she was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed. In 1855, however, a wealthy Kentucky businessman named Zebulon Ward, who colluded with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 MCDGreenburg, Michael M
Summary: Myrtilla Miner, the daughter of poor white farmers in Madison County, New York, was fueled by an unyielding feminist conviction. On December 3, 1851, the fiery educator and abolitionist opened the School for Colored Girls-- the only school in Washington, DC, dedicated to training African American students to be teachers. Milner fended off numerous attacks, including stonings, arson, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 MINAnderson, Beth
Summary: After being denied a seat on a New York City streetcar, Elizabeth Jennings begins the fight for equality by telling her story in churches, to newspapers, and finally in the courtroom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JENKeith, LeeAnna
Summary: "A history of antiracist and abolitionist activism in the Civil War-era Republican Party"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 KEISummary: Challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions, the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, by telling the harrowing story of how, in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2012
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SLABaker, Brynn.
Summary: "Discusses the heroic actions and experiences of the Buffalo Soldiers and the impact they made during times of war or conflict"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355 BAKBlackmon, Douglas A.
Summary: A sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today. From the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II, under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 BLAEscott, Paul D.
Summary: "Throughout the Civil War, newspaper headlines and stories repeatedly asked some variation of the question posed by the New York Times in 1862, "What shall we do with the negro?" The future status of African Americans was a pressing issue for both those in the North and in the South. Consulting a broad range of contemporary newspapers, magazines, books, army records, government documents,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Virginia Press 2009