Books

20+ results found

Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
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
Civil War ends	Corinne J. Naden	Describes the aftermath of the Civil War, including the assassination of Lincoln, Reconstruction, and the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant.	OL14856464W
Days of Jubilee	Patricia McKissack	Uses slave narratives, letters, diaries, military orders, and other documents to chronicle the various stages leading to the emancipation of slaves in the United States.	OL14860532W
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
Soul by Soul	Walter Johnson	Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the …	OL16808721W
The Emancipation Proclamation	Stephen Krensky	"An analysis of the Emancipation Proclamation, with information on how it was created and its impact on American history"--Provided by publisher.	OL16977810W
William Lloyd Garrison	Thomas, William	Profiles the life and work of the abolitionist and journalist who published his beliefs about antislavery.	OL17849724W
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
Rebel slave	Nancy Kelton	A biography of a young slave whose cruel experiences in the South lead her to seek freedom in the North for herself and others.	OL2617619W
Plain folk and gentry in a slave society	J. William Harris	In 1861, only about one-quarter of white southern families owned slaves, yet the vast majority of nonslave-owning whites followed southern planters into a long and bloody war to defend slavery. In do…	OL2743142W
Get on Board	James Haskins	Discusses the Underground Railroad, the secret, loosely organized network of people and places that helped many slaves escape north to freedom.	OL275115W
Family life and illicit love in earlier generations	Peter Laslett	This text about the history of family life approaches the topic on several levels. The author's main thesis considers the European family in relation to the differences between European economic and …	OL4478879W
Two tickets to freedom	Florence B. Freedman,Florence B. Freeman	Traces the search for freedom by a black man and wife who traveled to Boston and eventually to England after their escape from slavery in Georgia.	OL4788654W
Harriet Tubman	Lisa Halvorsen	A biography of the African American woman who escaped from slavery, led slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad, aided Northern troops during the Civil War, and worked for women's suffrage.	OL483482W
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
The Dred Scott decision	Clifton, Gunderson & Co.	Details the various trials of the Dred Scott case and discusses its impact on the issue of slave rights in the context of United States politics and the Civil War.	OL5968268W
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
The punished self	Alex Bontemps	"The Punished Self describes enslavement in the American South during the eighteenth century as a systematic assault on blacks' sense of self. Alex Bontemps explores slavery's effects on the captives…	OL7307234W
The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African	Robert J. Allison,Olaudah Equiano,Rebecka Rutledge Fisher	The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, details its writer's life in slavery, his time spent serving on galleys, the eventual attainment of his own freedom and late…	OL743333W