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African Americans Fiction African Americans Juvenile fiction Fugitive slaves Fiction Slavery Slavery Fiction Slavery United States Fiction Slavery United States Juvenile fiction United States United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Juvenile fictionRashad, Rae Giana
Summary: "Solenne Bonet is DoS--a Descendant of Slave--and has always known that her destiny would be in the service of men. At school, it is what she has been trained for, waiting for an algorithm to assign her to a white man, one of the thousands who sign up to be contract holders. She knows that there are girls who hope to be more than Maid or Mammy, who whisper about how they will get a white man to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC RASWard, Jesmyn
Summary: "Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC WARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC WARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction WardGwyn, Aaron
Summary: "1827. Duncan Lammons, a disgraced young man from Kentucky, sets out to join the American army in the province of Texas, hoping that here he may live and love as he pleases. That same year, Cecelia, a young slave in Virginia, runs away for the first time. Soon infamous for her escape attempts, Cecelia drifts through the reality of slavery until she encounters frontiersman Sam Fisk, who rescues...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GWYWinters, Ben H.
Summary: "It is the present-day, and the world is as we know it: smartphones, social networking and Happy Meals. Save for one thing: the Civil War never occurred. A gifted young Black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshall Service. He's got plenty of work. In this version of America, slavery continues in four...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINHaley, My.
Summary: In 1862, Virginian slave Mary Louvestre risks certain death during the Civil War to smuggle the plans for modifications to the ironclad CSS Virginia to the Union.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Köehler Books 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HALWinters, Ben H.
Summary: IT IS THE PRESENT DAY and the world is as we know it: smartphones, social networking, Happy Meals. Save for one thing: the Civil War never occurred. A gifted young black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, acting as a bounty hunter for the U.S. Marshals Service. He's got plenty of work. In this version of America, slavery continues in four states, the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WINSummary: A slick inner-city youth is knocked unconscious and wakes up to find he has been transported back through time to 1822 Charleston, S.C., where he is taken captive as a slave.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Feature Films for Families 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BRORuffin, Maurice Carlos
Summary: "When Adebimpe is ten, she is sold with her mother, Sanite, to plantation owner John du Marche. He soon renames her Ady but Sanite never lets her daughter forget who she really is - a person who can read and write and understand numbers. Most importantly, Sanite reminds Ady that she must never reveal these abilities to a white person, especially not her true name. Tasked with maintaining du...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC RUFBurg, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BURWinter, Jeanette.
Summary: By following the directions in a song, "The Drinking Gourd," taught them by an old sailor named Peg Leg Joe, runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dragonfly Books 1992
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Summary: They call themselves the Stolen. Their owners call them captives. They are taught their captors' tongues and their beliefs but they have a language and rituals all their own. In a world that would be allegorical if it weren't saturated in harsh truths, Cato and William meet at Placid Hall, a plantation in an unspecified part of the American South. Subject to the whims of their tyrannical and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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Summary: In 1864 twelve-year-old former slave Charlotte is lucky enough to live on a plantation near Richmond, Virginia, owned by a Miss Van Lew, who hates slavery, and when Charlotte overhears a conversation she realizes that her mistress is gathering information and passing it on to the Union army; Charlotte is eager to help, (especially since her own cousin, Mary, is involved) but her enthusiasm may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMIMonjo, F. N.
Summary: Set in New England before the Civil War, this story describes the way in which Tommy Fuller and his father help a family of slaves escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 1993
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MONLattimore, Ashton
Summary: "The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly-and dangerously-collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Group 2024
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Summary: Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom. Sold to an indigo trader who recognizes her intelligence, Aminata is torn from her husband and child and thrown into the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan, Aminata helps pen the Book of Negroes, a list of blacks rewarded for service to the king with safe passage to Nova Scotia. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILHill, Lawrence
Summary: Dreaming of escaping her life of slavery in South Carolina and returning to her African home, slave Aminata Diallo is thrown into the chaos of the Revolutionary War, during which she helps create a list of black people who have been honored for their service to the king.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2007
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Summary: "An unprecedented view of Lincoln's Springfield from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Loving Frank. Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORGrahame-Smith, Seth.
Summary: Reveals the hidden life of the 16th U.S. president, who was actually a vampire hunter, obsessed with the complete elimination of the undead, and uncovers the role vampires played in the birth, growth and near-death of the nation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAWalter, Jon
Summary: Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WALMcMann, Lisa.
Summary: "Dak, Sera, and Riq return to the United States and walk right into a deadly trap. The year is 1850 and the nation is divided over the issue of slavery. In these dark days, the Underground Railroad provides a light of hope, helping runaway slaves escape to freedom. But the SQ has taken control of the Underground Railroad from within. Now Dak and Sera are left wondering who to trust...while Riq...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2013
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC MCMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC INFAlexander, Kwame
Summary: "A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction AlexanderParry, Owen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PARAvi
Summary: After his thievery conviction in 1724, Oliver Cromwell Pitts is sent from England across the Atlantic to America where he is enslaved on a tobacco farm, never giving up on finding his sister, Charity, brought to the colonies on a different ship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2019
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Avi 2019Gibbons, Kaye
Summary: A Southern woman describes her life--from childhood on a plantation with a tyrannical father, to Civil War nurse in a military hospital with her surgeon husband, to pro-abolitionist in old age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1998