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FICTION / Fantasy / Historical Ontario, Southwestern History 19th century Fiction Ontario, Southwestern Race relations History 19th century Fiction Race relations Slavery Slavery Southern States History 19th century Fiction Southern States Southern States History 19th century Fiction Southern States Race relations History 19th century Fiction Southwestern OntarioBurg, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BURCoates, Ta-Nehisi
Summary: Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her, but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he's ever known. So begins an unexpected journey that takes...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COAThomas, Kai
Summary: "Young Lensinda Martin is a protegee of a crusading Black journalist and activist in mid-18th century southwestern Ontario, finding a home in a community founded by veterans of the War of 1812 and refugees from the slave-owning states of the American south--whose agents do not always stay on their side of the border. One night, a neighbouring farmer summons Lensinda after a slave hunter is shot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Canada 2023