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African American women Fiction African American women Fiction Children of presidents Fiction Infanticide Fiction Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Relations with women Fiction Plantation life Fiction Racially mixed people Fiction Slavery United States Fiction Slavery Fiction Women slaves FictionWilliams, Sheila (Sheila J.)
Summary: Born in West Africa in the mid-eighteenth century, Maryam Prescilla Grace--a.k.a "Momma Grace" will live a long, wondrous life marked by hardship, oppression, opportunity, and love. Though she will be "gifted" various names, her birth name is known to her alone. Over the course of 100-plus years, she survives capture, enslavement by several property owners, the Atlantic crossing when she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILClarke, Breena.
Summary: Even though Sewing Annie Coats and her son, Gabriel, have managed to buy their freedom, their lives are still marked by constant struggle and sacrifice. Washington's Georgetown neighborhood, where the Coatses operate a tailor's shop and laundry, is supposed to be a "promised land" for former slaves but is effectively a frontier town, gritty and dangerous, with no laws protecting black people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLALlanos-Figueroa, Dahlma
Summary: "A groundbreaking historical novel from a heralded author that explores the seldom discussed Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade. At a time when importing humans from Africa had been prohibited by the Spanish Crown, Pola and other slave women provide their master with babies who are immediately taken away and sold on the auction block. Her serial rapes by a number of men are routine and often...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LLAPope, Dudley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POPWalker, Margaret
Summary: The fortunes of a mulatto girl--as a slave during the Civil War and then as a woman freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1966
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALGomillion, Agnes
Summary: After World War III, Earth is in ruins, and the final armies have come to a reluctant truce. Everyone must obey the law--in every way--or risk shattering the fragile peace and endangering the entire human race. Although Arika Cobane is a member of the race whose backbreaking labor provides food for the remnants of humanity, she's destined to become a member of the Kongo elite. After ten...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2019
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Gomillion 2019Warren, Robert Penn
Summary: Amantha Starr, who was sent to Ohio at age nine to receive an education, does not return to her father's Kentucky plantation until she learns of his death. At his graveside she is shocked to learn that her mother had been a plantation slave, and now she, Amantha, is being sold by her father's creditors. This is her story for a search of freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1955
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARKelly, Martha Hall
Summary: Union nurse Georgeanna Woolsey travels with her sister to Gettysburg, where they cross paths with a slave-turned-army conscript and her cruel plantation mistress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELKelly, Martha Hall
Summary: "Georgeanna "Georgy" Woolsey isn't meant for the world of lavish parties and the demure attitudes of women of her status. So when war ignites the nation, Georgy follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women on the battlefront a bother. In proving them wrong, Georgy and her sister Eliza venture from New York to Washington, D.C., to Gettysburg and witness the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SPANISH 468 ALLRivers, Francine
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction RivMorrison, Toni.
Summary: After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Morrison 1987Morrison, Toni.
Summary: After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 0000
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: Book Club Kit 104 FIC MORFord, Jack
Summary: A story based on true events recreates a female slave's struggle for freedom in the decades before the Civil War as she is freed by her owner, kidnapped by slave catchers and returned to Virginia, and brings criminal charges against her kidnappers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FORMorrison, Toni.
Summary: Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 1998
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MORAllende, Isabel.
Summary: "The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLJohnson, Sadeqa
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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Johnson 2021Austin, Lynn N.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Pub. 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC AustiRivers, Francine
Summary: Turning away from the opulence of Rome, Marcus is led by a whispering voice from the past into a journey that could set him free from the darkness of his soul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction RivBrown, William Wells
Summary: "At a slave auction, a beautiful teenage girl, her sister, and her mother are sold as William Wells Brown's 1853 novel Clotel begins. In making his title character the daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Brown takes advantage of a scandalous and - until recently - unconfirmed rumor. Clotel's new owner falls in love with her, gets her pregnant, seems to promise marriage - then sells her. A fast-paced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBrown, William Wells
Summary: Includes memoirs, travel writings, fiction, and history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROPeyton, Tracey Rose
Summary: A gripping, radically intimate debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert rebellion against their owners. On a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleeping quarters and gather in the woods under the cover of night. The Lucys--as they call the plantation owners, after Lucifer himself--have decided to turn around the farm's bleak financial prospects...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEYMcCaig, Donald.
Summary: "Authorized by the Margaret Mitchell Estate, here is the first-ever prequel to one of the most beloved and bestselling novels of all time, Gone with the Wind. The critically acclaimed author of Rhett Butler's People magnificently recounts the life of Mammy, one of literature's greatest supporting characters, from her days as a slave girl to the outbreak of the Civil War. "Her story began with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction McCraig 2014Graham, Jo
Summary: The daughter of a slave taken from fallen Troy, Gull was chosen to become the voice of the Lady of the Dead and counsel kings. But when nine black ships appear, captained by exiled Prince Aeneas, she joins him as his guide and leads him to his destiny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2008