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African American women Biography African Americans Biography Fugitive slaves United States Biography Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Judge, Oney Slaves United States Washington, George 1732-1799 Washington, George 1732-1799 Relations with slaves Washington, Martha 1731-1802 Relations with slavesThomas, William G.
Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 THOWhite, Jonathan W.
Summary: "The riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-nineteenth century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, and Cuban liberation to the Civil War and Reconstruction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.6092 WHIFoley, Louise Pledge Heath.
Summary: Information was abstracted from land records and quit rent rolls.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Foley 1974
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3755 Foley VOL. 1Summary: This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 EAR3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 1
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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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.3 MCCCook, William Grover
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cook 1976
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-Gen 929.2 SNOWDEN, CookIsaacson, Walter
Summary: A portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist explores the impact of James Watson's "The Double Helix" on her career and how her team's invention of CRISPR technology enabled revolutionary DNA-editing approaches to fighting disease, as well as curing diseases, fending off viruses, and enhancing our children
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 576.5 ISACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 DOUDNA, JENNIFER ISADunbar, Erica Armstrong
Summary: "A National Book Award Finalist for Non-Fiction, Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave, who risked everything for freedom. Now in a Young Readers Edition"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019
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Summary: "Examines the life of enslaved African-American Nat Turner and the events leading up to the slave rebellion he led in 1831."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TURHuffman, 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 HUFShepard, Ray Anthony
Summary: "An elegant, unforgiving poem narrating Ona Judge's self-emancipation from George Washington's household"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JUDBlight, David W.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.7115 BLIFountain, Henry
Summary: "In the tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, a riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in recorded history in North America--the 1964 Alaskan earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and obliterated the coastal village of Chenega--and the scientist sent to look for geological clues to explain the dynamics of earthquakes, who helped to confirm the then controversial theory of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.2 FOURagsdale, Bruce A.
Summary: "George Washington spent most of his time farming, often employing experimental methods. Washington saw slave-powered scientific agriculture as the key to the nation's prosperity. Bruce Ragsdale argues that it was slave labor's inefficiency as much as itsinhumanity that finally convinced Washington to emancipate the men and women bonded to him"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 RAGKeller, Shana
Summary: "Frederick Douglass knew that learning to read and write would be the first step in his quest for freedom. Told from first-person perspective and using some of Douglass's own words, this biography draws from his experiences as a young boy and his attempts to learn how to read and write."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DOUBlight, David W.
Summary: Slave narratives are extremely rare, with only 55 post-Civil War narratives surviving. A mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives join that exclusive group. Handed down through family and friends, they tell gripping stories of escape: Through a combination of intelligence, daring, and sheer luck, the men reached the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7115 BLISummary: They were the most legendary and respected politicians, statesmen and warriors of history's first republic since the days of ancient Rome. They were also traitors and smugglers, rabble rousers and hot-heads, unfaithful husbands and prodigious drinkers. Our "Founding Fathers" were, in fact, human beings. Gain a fascinating glimpse behind the images on the marble busts and faces on our dollar...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2000
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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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 ROTJawando, Will
Summary: "A memoir by the lawyer, activist, and county councilman Will Jawando"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAWANDO, WILL JAWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B JAWANDO JAWDouglass, Frederick
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8092 DOUHogg, Lauren
Summary: Lauren Hogg, one of the survivors of the shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school in Parkland, Florida, dramatically tells her story in graphic novel form. The tragedy of yet another mass shooting has galvanized the young people of the country, and helped launch a movement that continues to gain momentum. Lauren Hogg lost her two best friends that horrible day, but despite her loss she,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zuiker Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 371.7 HOGPhillips, Richard Hayes
Summary: " In this groundbreaking work, Richard Hayes Phillips has collected the names of more than five thousand children kidnapped from Ireland, Scotland, England, and New England, and sold into slavery in Maryland and Virginia, c. 1660-1720. By English law dated 1659, it was lawful for justices of the peace to kidnap children found begging or vagrant and ship them to the plantations as servants...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.373 PHIGreen, Kristen.
Summary: Combining hard-hitting investigative journalism and a sweeping family narrative, this provocative true story reveals a little-known chapter of American history-- the period after the Brown v. Board of Education decision when one Virginia school system refused to integrate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015