Greene, Meg.
Summary: Presents a social and cultural history of the American slave experience with emphasis on day to day life rather than the larger political context.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Co. 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.0496 GRELlanos-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 LLAMack, Stanley.
Summary: In 1861, a young slave named Sam escapes to search for his father, who has been conscripted into the Confederate army, and makes his way to a northern city, while back at the Virginia plantation where Sam was raised Annabelle, the owner's daughter, struggles to run things after her father's death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Childrens Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Graphic MACStowe, Harriet Beecher
Summary: Contains three novels on the topics of slavery, romance, and changes in the lifestyles in an old small town.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOWilliams-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 WILSummary: This story follows the life of Eliza and her protector Uncle Tom, who are caught in the brutality of slavery in the Southern States during the nineteenth century.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNCGriswold, Mac K.
Contents: Proprietors of Sylvester Manor Since 1651 -- The Discovery -- Living with the Indians -- Amsterdam -- The Other Island : Barbados -- Nathaniel's Middle Passage -- Before the Whirlwind -- The World Turns Upside Down -- Time of Longing -- Where They Lived -- How They Lived -- In the Ground -- "Oppression upon the Mind" -- Quaker Martyrs, Quaker Peace -- "A Duchman in his Hartt" -- "Children of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.721 GRIAllende, 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 ALLMiles, 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
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILSantiago, 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 SANJones, Edward P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2004
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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 CLAGist, 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 GISHuffman, Alan.
Summary: Isaac Ross died in 1836, and his will stipulated that his Mississippi plantation be sold and the proceeds used to provide passage for his slaves to the new colony of Liberia. This book discusses the battle over the will (which was ultimately upheld), and the results of those slaves' emigration to Liberia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.2 HUFPeart, Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan Pub. House 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEAAllende, 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: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLJones, Elizabeth McDavid
Summary: In 1776, eleven-year-old Felicity runs the household while her mother and siblings are away, but is distracted by her horse's ill health, two strangers in town, and the fear that a box of family heirlooms is haunted. Includes historical information about life in colonial Williamsburg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2009
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC JONAustin, Lynn N.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Pub. 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC AustiGrissom, Kathleen.
Summary: "In 1790, Lavinia, a seven-year-old Irish orphan with no memory of her past, arrives on a tobacco plantation where she is put to work as an indentured servant with the kitchen house slaves. Though she becomes deeply bonded to her new family, Lavinia is also slowly accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium addiction. As time passes she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Books 2010
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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 PHIStowe, Harriet Beecher
Summary: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1995
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Summary: A reassessment of the third president draws on new archaeological studies and previously disregarded personal records to explore his contradictory views on slavery while examining what is revealed by his monetary records.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012