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Johnson, Sadeqa

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: Born on a plantation but set apart from the others by her mother's position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at eighteen and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail. Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. Instead she finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOH

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOH

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Johnson 2021

Jones, Edward P.

Summary: Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor -- William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation -- as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow, Caldonia, succumbs to profound grief, and things begin...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JON

Mack, 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

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Graphic MAC

Rothman, Joshua D.

Summary: "In The Ledger and the Chain, prize-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman tells the disturbing story of the Franklin and Armfield company and the men who built it into the largest and most powerful slave trading company in the United States. In so doing, he reveals the central importance of the domestic slave trade to the development of American capitalism and the expansion of the American...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, Hachette Book Group 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 ROT

McClafferty, Carla Killough

Summary: Draws on primary source documents and photographs of historical artifacts to examine the lives of men and women enslaved by the Washington family, and includes information on the present-day archeological survey of Mount Vernon's Slave Cemetery.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.3 MCC

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