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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
A Free Black Girl Before the Civil War	Charlotte L. Forten	The diary of a sixteen year old free African American who lived in Massachusetts in 1854 records of her schooling, participation in the anti-slavery movement, and concern for an arrested fugitive sla…	OL14854427W
Frederick Douglass	Dana Meachen Rau	A biography of Frederick Douglass, an author who wrote a book about his life as a slave in America, and a speaker who spoke out against slavery.	OL14859576W
Let's meet Frederick Douglass	Lisa Trumbauer	Simple text and photographs introduce the life of Frederick Douglass, including his childhood, life as a slave, escape to freedom, founding of a newspaper, public speaking, and public service.	OL15039240W
The Civil War and Reconstruction	Stuart A. Kallen	Scans Black history from the earliest struggles for allowing free states to enter the union to Reconstruction and white resistance, profiles such figures as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Bo…	OL15042226W
Against Slavery	Mason I. Lowance,Theodore Dwight Weld,Cotton Mather,Frederick Douglass,Robert Dale Owen,Alexander Crummell,William Lloyd Garrison	Assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade. Features William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Beeche…	OL15061697W
The mockingbird's call	Aaron McCarver,Diane Ashley	Amelia Montgomery never would have planned to become a notorious agent on the Underground Railroad; it just happened. Someone needed help, and she helped. Before she knew it, she had acquired the cod…	OL15527746W
Frederick Douglass	Helaine Becker	Offers a brief biography of the slave who became a great orator and his contribution to American society.	OL15836434W
Natural law and the antislavery constitutional tradition	Justin Buckley Dyer	"Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition is a succinct account of the development of American antislavery constitutionalism in the years preceding the Civil War"--	OL16015245W
William Lloyd Garrison	Thomas, William	Profiles the life and work of the abolitionist and journalist who published his beliefs about antislavery.	OL17849724W
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass and other writings	Frederick Douglass	A collation of works by Douglass	OL17875216W
President of the Underground Railroad	Gwenyth Swain	A biography of a Quaker man from North Carolina whose fearless work on the Underground Railroad in Indiana and Ohio helped thousands of men and women escape the cruelty of slavery.	OL1804874W
Lewis Hayden and the War Against Slavery	Joel Strangis	A biography of a former slave who was active in the anti-slavery movement, as a fugitive in Canada, a "stationmaster" on the Underground Railroad, a supporter of John Brown, and a recruiter for "blac…	OL1923586W
The invention of wings	Sue Monk Kidd	Hetty "Handful" Grimké, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimké household. The Grimké's daughter…	OL19976144W
The scorpion's sting	James Oakes	Explores the Civil War and the anti-slavery movement, specifically highlighting the plan to help abolish slavery by surrounding the slave states with territories of freedom and discusses the possibil…	OL19984107W
Force and Freedom	Kellie Carter Jackson	"From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of 'moral suasion' and nonviolent resistance as both religious tenet and political strategy. But by …	OL20160916W
A salute to historic Black abolitionists	Richard L. Green	Presents brief biographical sketches of twenty-two black abolitionists, including Frederick Douglass, Prince Hall, and Nat Turner.	OL23574427W
Disunion!	Elizabeth R. Varon	In the decades before the Civil War, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten or discredit their opponents. According to Elizabeth Varon, "disunion" wa…	OL2679699W
The Underground Railroad for Kids	Mary Kay Carson	The heroic struggles of the thousands of slaves who sought freedom through the Underground Railroad are vividly portrayed in this powerful activity book, as are the abolitionists, free blacks, and fo…	OL2712311W
Dark princess	W. E. B. Du Bois	29, 311 p. 24 cm	OL28596W
The abolitionists	Dan Mabry Lacy	Discusses the efforts of those men and women who worked toward the total abolition of slavery in the decades before the Civil War.	OL2947698W