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African American families Fiction African Americans Fiction Fathers and daughters Fiction Historical fiction Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Fiction Randolph, Martha Jefferson 1772-1836 Fiction Slave insurrections Fiction Slavery Fiction Slaves Fiction Virginia History 1775-1865 FictionD'Aguiar, Fred
Summary: In Virginia, a slave is taught to read by his master's daughter and falls in love with her. He runs away, but his father reveals his whereabouts, the man is captured and whipped to death. The novel looks at slavery from two viewpoints: that of rebels and that of survivalists.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books, c1994. 1995
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Summary: Cassius Howard is a skilled slave, once his master's favorite. But his master Hoke is now little more than a fragile old man, depressed about an ever-shrinking plantation and losing a son to war. When an old freedwoman who once saved Cassius from Hoke's wrath is killed, Cassius risks everything to avenge her death.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FULStyron, William
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1967
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STYFuller, David
Summary: The year is 1862, and the Civil War rages through the South. On a Virginia tobacco plantation, another kind of battle soon begins. There, Cassius Howard, a skilled carpenter and slave, risks everything--punishment, sale to a cotton plantation, even his life--to learn the truth concerning the murder of Emoline, a freed black woman, a woman who secretly taught him to read and once saved his life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FULGunning, Sally
Summary: Through marriage, motherhood, politics, scandal, and her family's increasing impoverishment, Martha Jefferson yearns to find her way back to the beauty and happiness she experienced as a young girl on her father's estate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016