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Running a thousand miles for freedom
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William Craft |
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom details the escape of Ellen and William Craft from slavery in Georgia in the United States. Well publicized at the time, the married couple became celebrities in … |
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Great slave narratives
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Arna Wendell Bontemps |
Three selected narratives exemplify an interesting, sometimes little-known area of American Negro history and writing. |
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Twelve Years a Slave
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Solomon Northup |
The true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York.who was kidnapped by slave hunters and sold into slavery where he endured degradation and abuse until his rescue twelve years la… |
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Beyond the River
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Ann Hagedorn |
"The decades preceding the Civil War were rife with fierce sectarian violence along the borders between slave and free states. The Ohio River was one such border. Here in the river towns of Ohio and … |
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CliffsNotes Jacobs' Incidents in the life of a slave girl
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Durthy Washington |
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feat… |
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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
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Frederick Douglass |
Published in 1845, this pre-eminent American slave narrative powerfully details the life of the internationally famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escap… |
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Growing Up in Slavery
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Yuval Taylor |
Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and others describe what it was like to spend their childhoods and teenage years under slavery. |
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