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2022.
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English
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"Things Past Telling is a remarkable historical epic that charts one unforgettable woman's journey across an ocean of years as vast as the Atlantic that will forever separate her from her homeland. 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...
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[2022]
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English
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Myths! Lies! Secrets! Uncover the hidden truth about the Underground Railroad and Black Americans' struggle for freedom. Perfect for fans of I Survived! and Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales. Before the Civil War, there was a crack team of abolitionists who used quilts and signal lanterns to guide enslaved people to freedom. RIGHT? WRONG! The truth is, the Underground Railroad wasn't very organized, and most freedom seekers were on their own. With a...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"To understand why the shadow of slavery still haunts society today, we must not only look at what slavery was, but also the unfinished way it ended. One may think of 'emancipation' as a finale, leading to a new age of human rights and universal freedoms. But in reality, emancipations everywhere were incomplete. In [this book], ... Manjapra identifies five types of emancipation--explaining them in chronological order--along with the lasting impact...
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[2012], c2008
Language
English
Description
The Pew Research Center recently reported that black Americans are more dissatisfied with their progress than at any time in the past quarter century. In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers gets perspective from historical and cultural sociologist Orlando Patterson and Glenn C. Loury, an economist and expert on race and social division. Moyers also interviews the Wall Street Journal's Douglas Blackmon about his book Slavery by Another Name: The...
27) Freewater
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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After fleeing the plantation where they were enslaved, siblings Ada and Homer discover the secret community of Freewater, and work with freeborn Sanzi to protect their new home from the encroaching dangers of the outside world.
29) Yonder: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Water Dancer meets The Prophets in this spare, gripping, and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid-nineteenth century"--
Pub. Date
[2013], c2010
Language
English
Description
This film documents the enduring legacy of slavery in today's young black society. David Wilson, a 28-year-old African-American journalist, revisits his family history to find answers to America's racial divide. Along the way, he meets another David Wilson, the descendant of his family's slave master. This discovery leads to a momentous encounter between the two men, whose ancestors were on the opposite sides of freedom. We first observe journalist...
31) Freedom bird
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In the antebellum South, two siblings shelter a large, mysterious, wounded bird and eventually follow it west toward freedom.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave...
34) Build a house
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Publisher Annotation: As an acclaimed musician, singer, songwriter, and cofounder of the traditional African American string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Rhiannon Giddens has long used her art to mine America’s musical past and manifest its future, passionately recovering lost voices and reconstructing a nation’s musical heritage. Written as a song to commemorate the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth-which was originally performed with famed...
36) Trafficked
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A seventeen-year-old Moldovan girl whose parents have been killed is brought to the United States to work as a slave for a family in Los Angeles.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This graphic novel tells unforgettable stories about Afro-Brazilian slaves who rebelled against oppression.
Run For It - a stunning graphic novel by internationally acclaimed illustrator Marcelo d'Salete - is one of the first literary and artistic efforts to face up to Brazil's hidden history of slavery. Originally published in Brazil - where it was nominated for three of the country's most prestigious comics awards - Run For It has received rave...
39) Show way
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Description
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
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