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African Americans Fiction Farmers Fiction Freedmen Fiction Freedmen Juvenile fiction Freedmen Virginia Fiction Gay military personnel Fiction Georgia History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Plantations Virginia Fiction Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) FictionMorrow, Bethany C.
Summary: At the Freedman's Colony of Roanoke Island, a haven for the recently emancipated, the four March sisters--Meg, Joanna, Bethlehem, and Amethyst--come into their own as independent young Black women together facing love, sickness, heartbreak, and new horizons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MORCurtis, Christopher Paul
Summary: Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CUREstleman, Loren D.
Summary: Freed slave Honey Boutrille and white bandit Twice Emmerson learn that Western justice is not exactly black and white when they cross the line and go on a crime spree.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTHambly, Barbara.
Summary: A black American surgeon fights racism as he works alongside whites during a cholera epidemic in 1830s New Orleans. What particularly disturbs the French-trained Benjamin January, a free man of color, is that many other free men are disappearing. Are they victims of cholera or a human hand?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMPutney, Mary Jo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUTLeveen, Lois
Summary: "Based on the true story of Mary Bowser, a freed slave who returns to Virginia to spy on the Confederates, The secrets of Mary Bowser is the powerful story of a woman who must sacrifice her freedom to truly achieve it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LEVPeacock, Nancy
Summary: A slave-turned-Comanche warrior travels from the brutality of a New Orleans sugar cane plantation to the indomitable frontier of untamed Texas to search for the woman he loves and for his own identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PEAPerkins-Valdez, Dolen
Summary: "Set during the [era after the Civil War] and exploring the next chapter of history--the end of slavery--this ... story of love and healing is about three people who struggle to overcome the pain of the past and define their own future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERPhillips, Michael R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PHIMargolin, Phillip
Summary: One of a handful of lawyers in the new state of Oregon, recently widowed Matthew Penny agrees to help Worthy Brown, a newly freed slave, rescue his fifteen year old daughter, Roxanne, from their former master, a powerful Portland lawyer. Worthy's lawsuit sets in motion events that lead to Worthy's arrest for murder and create an agonizing moral dilemma that could send either Worthy or Matthew...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Margolin 2014Kirkpatrick, Jane
Summary: The dramatic story of a freed slave who has lost her husband and her freedom papers and must find a way to survive in the wilderness of the Oregon Territory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION KIRHarris, Nathan
Summary: "In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry--freed by the Emancipation Proclamation--seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HARHarris, Nathan
Summary: "In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction HarrisJiles, Paulette
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JILHenderson, Leah
Summary: In Charleston, South Carolina, in 1865, ten-year-old Eli and other newly freed slaves gather to honor the memory of fallen Union soldiers, an event considered to be one of the first celebrations of what is now called Memorial Day. Includes author's note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HENAnderson, Laurie Halse.
Summary: Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ANDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ANDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ANDAustin, Lynn N.
Summary: In the aftermath of the Civil War, Josephine Weatherly vows to rebuild her family's once-grand Virginia plantation, but her privileged life has now turned into a daily struggle for survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2012
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Summary: In the aftermath of the Civil War, Josephine Weatherly vows to rebuild her family's once-grand Virginia plantation, but her privileged life has now turned into a daily struggle for survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSRiley, Vanessa
Summary: "A former slave rises above the harsh realities of being owned and colonialism on Montserrat working hard to buy freedom for herself, her mother, and her sister and becoming an entrepreneur, merchant, hotelier, and planter. Based on the true life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021