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23) Sugar
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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
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English
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Among the most “banned” books in the United States, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe which treats slavery as a central theme. Stowe was a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist. The novel is believed to have had a profound effect on the North’s view of slavery. In fact, when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe, President Lincoln is said to have...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
Se relata cómo Solomon Northup, nacido un hombre libre en Nueva York, fue atraído a Washington, DC, en 1841 con la promesa de dinero rápido, entonces drogado y golpeado y vendido como esclavo. Pasó los siguientes doce años de su vida en cautiverio en una plantación de algodón Louisiana.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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"Designed for both professional and amateur genealogists and other researchers, this index provides a detailed guide to materials available in the extensive Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations microfilm set. The items indexed include deeds, wills, estate papers, genealogies, personal and business correspondence, account books, slave lists, and many other types of records"--Provided by publisher.
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English
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"Conozcan la historia real de Solomon Northhup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), un ciudadano afro-americano nacido libre durante el siglo XIX. Siendo un violinista prometedor y talentoso, Solomon recibe la oferta de dos artistas para tocar el violín en unas presentaciones de la la ciudad de Nueva York. Esto es un engalo y Solomon es secuestrado para ser vendido como esclavo en unas plantaciones de Louisiana, donde conocerá de cerca el maltrato y racismo de la...
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