Contents: Sheep, sheep, don'tcha know the road (Bessie Jones and the Sea Island Singers) -- The juice of the forbidden fruit (Neil Morris) -- Devil's dream (Hobart Smith) -- You got dimples in your jaws (Willie Jones and others) -- Drunken hiccups (Hobart Smith) -- You done tol' everybody (Fred McDowell) -- The house carpenter (Almeda Riddle) -- Straighten 'em (Bright Light Quartet) -- Corn dodgers (Neil...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1997

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS SOU

Burg, Ann E.

Summary: The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BUR

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BUR

Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E.

Summary: "Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South's slave market. Because women typically...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 JON

Schwartz, Heather E.

Summary: "Uses primary sources to tell the story of the Freedom Riders during the U.S. Civil Rights Movement"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.11 SCH

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Blk Civil Schwartz

Johnson, E. Patrick

Summary: "Giving voice to a population rarely acknowledged in southern history, Sweet Tea collects life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the southern United States. E. Patrick Johnson challenges stereotypes of the South as 'backward' or 'repressive,' suggesting that these men draw upon the performance of 'southernness'--politeness, coded speech, and religiosity,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 JOH

Duffy, Damian

Summary: "Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that is suddenly transformed into the frightening world of the antebellum South. Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Comicarts 2018

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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUT

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DUF

Contents: Sardinia (Alabama Sacred Harp Singers) -- Testimony on pioneer religion (D.N. Asher) -- Amazing grace (Howard Adams & Thornton Old Regular Baptist Church) -- Lonely tombs (Preston and Hobart Smith, Texas Gladden) -- Guide me, O Thou Great Jehovah (George Spangler and Congregation of Thornton Old Regular Baptist Church) -- The old gospel ship (Ruby Vass) -- The little family (Ollie Gilbert) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1997

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS SOU