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The book of night women The book of night women Marlon James From a young writer who radiates charisma and talent comes a sweeping, stylish historical novel of Jamaican slavery that can be compared only to Toni Morrison's Beloved.The Book of Night Women is a s… OL13648915W
Mistress of Rome Mistress of Rome Kate Quinn The first in an unforgettable historical saga from the USA Today bestselling author of The Alice Network. “So gripping, your hands are glued to the book, and so vivid it burns itself into your mi… OL13806428W
Mistress of Rome Mistress of Rome Kate Quinn Thea is a slave girl from Judaea. Purchased as a toy for the spiteful heiress Lepida Pollia, Thea becomes her mistress's rival for the love of Arius the Barbarian, Rome's newest and most savage gladi… OL15408634W
Harriet Tubman 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
Property Property Valerie Martin Valerie Martin’s **Property** delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slavery’s venomous effects on the owner and the owned. The year is 1828, the setting a Louisiana sugar plantation where Manon… OL15866359W
Wench Wench Dolen Perkins-Valdez Tawawa House in many respects is like any other American resort before the Civil War. Situated in Ohio, this idyllic retreat is particularly nice in the summer when the Southern humidity is too much … OL16967090W
Ruth's Journey Ruth's Journey Donald McCaig Set against the backdrop of the American South from the 1820s until the dawn of the Civil War, this is a remarkable story of fortitude, heartbreak, and indomitable will - and a tale that will forever… OL17074980W
Enslaved Women in America From Colonial Times to Emancipation Enslaved Women in America From Colonial Times to Emancipation Emily West More than a century after Emancipation, no comprehensive overview of the history of the female American slave exists. In this book, historian Emily West offers the first comprehensive overview of the… OL17076441W
The Course of Honour The Course of Honour Lindsey Davis The true-life love story of the Emperor Vespasian and the freedwoman Antonia Caenis. Despite a twenty-year hiatus, during which Vespasian married a woman of status and fathered the two future Emperor… OL176304W
Beyond slavery Beyond slavery Bernadette J. Brooten "In a United States that continues to be driven by racial and cultural divisions, from the disproportionately high number of incarcerated African Americans to heartfelt disagreements over the true na… OL18348512W
Bloodlines Bloodlines Fred D'Aguiar Like no poetry you've ever known before, this novel-in-verse sweeps you up in the story of a young female slave who falls in love with the son of the plantation owner and runs away with him in search… OL1865140W
The expedition to the baobab tree The expedition to the baobab tree Wilma Stockenström "In J.M.Coetzee's stunning translation: a powerfully symbolic story in the voice of a slave that explores the depths of imagination, isolation, fear, and love. A slave woman is the only survivor of a… OL19975871W
The barefoot queen The barefoot queen Ildefonso Falcones de Sierra Facing homelessness after the death of her master, Cuban former slave Caridad becomes a freedom fighter at the side of rebellious gypsy Milagros Carmona, with whom she confronts increasingly hostile … OL19987032W
Jubilee Jubilee Margaret Walker A novel based on the life of the author's great-grandmother follows the story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and one of his slaves, through the years of the Civil War and Reconstructi… OL20051327W
Naslednit͡sa Roksolany Naslednit͡sa Roksolany Aĭrat Seviĭorum Nisa, a young woman kidnapped from her homland finds herself in the harem of Selim II, the last surviving son of Roxelana, the chief wife of Sultan Süleyman I, the Magnificent. Selim II is weary of t… OL21269820W
The life of Harriet Tubman The life of Harriet Tubman Emma Lynch One of a series of biographies of famous figures aimed at young readers aged 5-7. OL27061533W
Harriet Jacobs Harriet Jacobs Jean Fagan Yellin Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains the most-read woman's slave narrative of all time. Jean Fagan Yellin recounts the experiences that shaped Incidents-the years Jacobs spe… OL4473343W
Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House Elizabeth Keckley A former slave's intimate memoir of the Lincoln White House, a timeless addition to the canons of African American and Civil War literatureOriginally published in 1868-when it was attacked as an "ind… OL4968218W
CliffsNotes Jacobs' Incidents in the life of a slave girl CliffsNotes Jacobs' Incidents in the life of a slave girl 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… OL5971969W
Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley Cynthia Salisbury Follows the life of one of America's first black poets from her sale as a child slave on the Boston auction block to her death as an impoverished freedwoman in 1784. OL6207967W
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