Search results for “[Subject: slavery]”

• Author(s): Theodore Dwight Weld • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: History - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)Slavery in AmericaAn Introd...

• Author(s): Frederick Douglass | L. Diane Barnes • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: GeneralFrederick Douglass was born enslaved in February 1818, but from this most humble of begi...

• Author(s): Et Al Glasrud • Publisher: TX A&m-McWhiney Foundation • Publisher Imprint: TX A&m-McWhiney Foundation • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)Black Americans arrived in West Texas in the early s...

• Author(s): Ron Field • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: GeneralAn investigative history course directly accessible to all pupils at Key Stage 3.

• Author(s): Booker T. Washington • Publisher: Dover Publications • Publisher Imprint: Dover Publications • BISAC: African American & BlackBorn in a Virginia slave hut, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) rose to become the most influential spok...

• Author(s): Kenneth C. Davis • Publisher: Square Fish • Publisher Imprint: Square Fish • BISAC: History - United States - Colonial & Revolutionary PeriodsDid you know that many of America's Founding Fathers--who fought for liberty and justic...

• Author(s): Patricia Williams Dockery • Publisher: Crown Books • Publisher Imprint: Crown Books • BISAC: GeneralUntil now, you've only heard one side of the story: how slavery began, and how America split itself in two to end it. Here's the true...

• Author(s): Winifred Conkling • Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers • Publisher Imprint: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers • BISAC: African American & BlackNOW IN PAPERBACK! The page-turning, heart-wrenching true story of o...

• Author(s): Mary E. Lyons • Publisher: Simon Pulse • Publisher Imprint: Simon Pulse • BISAC: Historical - United States - 19th CenturyBased on the true story of Harriet Ann Jacobs, Letters from a Slave Girl reveals in poignant detail what thousa...

• Author(s): Afua Cooper • Publisher: Kids Can Press • Publisher Imprint: Kids Can Press • BISAC: Biographical - United StatesThis is the remarkable story of Phillis Wheatley, who is born into an African family of griots, or storytellers, but cap...

• Author(s): Afua Cooper • Publisher: Kids Can Press • Publisher Imprint: Kids Can Press • BISAC: Native AmericanOften shocking, always compelling, Afua Cooper's novel is based on the life of Henry Bibb, an American slave who after repeated attem...

• Author(s): Angelica Shirley Carpenter • Publisher: Zest Books (Tm) • Publisher Imprint: Zest Books (Tm) • BISAC: Biography & Autobiography - Social ActivistsBorn into a family of wealthy enslavers and growing up in the South, the Grimké sis...

• Author(s): Carole Boston Weatherford • Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: Candlewick Press (MA) • BISAC: Biography & Autobiography - HistoricalA Newbery Honor Book In a moving, lyrical tale about the cost and fragility of...

• Author(s): Christine R. Regas • Publisher: Austin Macauley • Publisher Imprint: Austin Macauley • BISAC: Action & Adventure - GeneralZara, a young slave girl, is thrilled to discover a mysterious secret sign scrawled in the dust. Hoping it ...

• Author(s): Zoanne Evans | Alisha Smith • Publisher: Cas • Publisher Imprint: Cas • BISAC: Historical - GeneralThirteen-year-old Tameisha is tired. Tired of teachers, tired of homework, generally tired of school. All she really wants to do (apar...