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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Harvest of Hate	Léon Poliakov	Here is a horrifying, clear-cut story of the Nazi program to exterminate the Jews, detailing the origins of the anti-Semitic movement in Germany, and outlining the various histories of the ghettos, c…	OL1360068W
The Dred Scott decision	Brendan January	Places the events relating to the 1857 Supreme Court decision regarding rights of slaves into the larger context of the conflict about slavery among the states.	OL14852085W
The Emancipation Proclamation	Brendan January	Tells the story of the document which led eventually to the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment and relates the role of President Lincoln in freeing the slaves.	OL14852086W
The Beatitudes	Carole Boston Weatherford	The Beatitudes form the backdrop for Weatherford's free-verse poem that traces the African American journey from slavery to civil rights.	OL15498955W
Harriet Tubman	Kem Knapp Sawyer	An illustrated exploration of the life of Harriet Tubman that covers her childhood, experiences as a slave, escape to freedom, work on the Underground Railroad, antislavery activism, and other topics.	OL15612610W
Advice Among Masters	James O. Breeden	xxvi, 350 p. ; 22 cm	OL17092891W
William Lloyd Garrison	Thomas, William	Profiles the life and work of the abolitionist and journalist who published his beliefs about antislavery.	OL17849724W
Accounting for slavery	Caitlin Rosenthal	Accounting for Slavery offers a history of business and management practices on slave plantations in the British West Indies and the American South, covering the century from approximately 1780-1880.…	OL19764018W
Sisters against slavery	Stephanie Sammartino McPherson	A biography of two sisters from a wealthy southern family who devoted their lives to the causes of abolition and women's rights.	OL1986750W
Way up and over everything	Alice McGill	In this retelling of a folktale, five Africans escape the horrors of slavery by simply disappearing into thin air.	OL2676052W
Daily life on a southern plantation, 1853	Erickson, Paul	Recreates a southern plantation of 1853 and describes the daily lives of its owners and of the slaves who worked there.	OL2682230W
Strange new land	Peter H. Wood	Discusses the lives of blacks in the American colonies, from the 16th century when slaves were first brought over by the Spanish to the onset of the American Revolution.	OL3752754W
Narrative of William W. Brown	William Wells Brown	Narrative of the author's experiences as a slave in St. Louis and elsewhere.	OL515590W
From slavery to freedom	Alfred A. Moss Jr.,John Hope Franklin,Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham	From slavery to freedom describes the rise of slavery, the interaction of European and African cultures in the New World, and the emergence of a distinct culture and way of life among slaves and free…	OL55887W
From slavery to freedom	Lilly, Melinda.	Introduces the Underground Railroad, a group of people and places through which runaway slaves escaped to freedom before the Civil War.	OL57920W
Slavery in America	Tonya Buell	Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the history of slavery in the United States.	OL6028646W
Mr. Jefferson's lost cause	Roger G. Kennedy	Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers -- free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system -- particularly …	OL61004W
Tituba of Salem Village	Ann Lane Petry	A captivating historical fiction book about the Salem witch trials told in the voice of the Putnam's slave Tituba. She is the only one to admitted to witchcraft, and the only one not to be executed.…	OL7098031W
Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad	Marlene Targ Brill	Recounts how Allen Jay, a young Quaker boy living in Ohio during the 1840s, helped a fleeing slave escape his master and make it to freedom through the Underground Railroad.	OL77935W
Harriet Tubman	Lori Mortensen	Biographies-Kid-friendly biographies invite young readers to take a fresh look into the fascinating lives of famous Americans.	OL8411937W