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The freedmen's book
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l. maria child |
Inspiring biographies of successful former slaves. |
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Gabriel's triumph
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Alison Hart |
A thirteen-year-old newly-freed slave faces the challenges of freedom and horse racing as he pursues his dream of becoming a famous jockey in Civil War Kentucky and New York. |
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Child of the South
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Joanna C. Scott |
From the award-winning author of The Road from Chapel Hill, a story of loyalty, duty, and love in the days following the Civil War.Returning to characters introduced in her previous novel, acclaimed … |
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Fires of jubilee
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Alison Hart |
At the end of the Civil War in 1865, a teenage former slave is determined to find the truth about the disappearance of her parents. She's about to discover that, like freedom, the truth is harder to … |
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Secret of the old red barn
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Sandra L. Zaugg |
In 1860 Michigan, as twelve-year-old Zach and his father become involved in a new, unnamed church and befriend neighbors who are freed slaves, they have conflicts with townspeople and with Zach's mot… |
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Liberty or death
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Margaret Whitman Blair |
Presentation of the little-known story of the American Revolution told from the perspectives of the African-American slaves who fought on the side of the British Royal Army in exchange for a promise … |
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Children of the Emancipation
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Wilma King |
Explains how the nearly four million slaves and nearly half a million free blacks gained freedom and basic rights as citizens, following Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. |
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Bury me not in a land of slaves
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Joyce Hansen |
An account of African-American life in the period of Reconstruction following the Civil War, based on first-person narratives, contemporary documents, and other historical sources. |
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The secrets of Mary Bowser
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Lois Leveen |
"Based on the true story of Mary Bowser, a freed slave who returns to Virginia to spy on the Confederates, The secrets of Mary Bowser is the powerful story of a woman who must sacrifice her freedom t… |
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Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction
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Harrison, Robert |
"Robert Harrison provides new insight into grass-roots Reconstruction after the Civil War and into the lives of those of those most deeply affected, the newly emancipated African Americans"--
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Walking home to Rosie Lee
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A. LaFaye |
At the end of the Civil War, young Gabe meets many other former slaves getting a feel for freedom whose kindness helps him in his quest to find his mother, who was sold away. |
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Sick from freedom
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Jim Downs |
"Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the large… |
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All things new
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Lynn N. Austin |
In the aftermath of the Civil War, Josephine Weatherly and her mother, Eugenia, struggle to pick up the pieces of their lives when they return to their Virginia plantation. But the bitter realities o… |
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David
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Ray Robertson |
Born a slave in 1847 but raised a free man in the African-American settlement near Chatham, Ontario, David King's life has been one long act of rebellion against the man who freed him: the Reverend W… |
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Willow
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Tonya Hegamin |
In 1848 Willow, a fifteen-year-old educated slave girl, faces an inconceivable choice -- between bondage and freedom, family and love -- as free born, seventeen-year-old Cato, a black man, takes it u… |
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The abduction of Smith and Smith
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Rashad Harrison |
"The Civil War is over, though for Jupiter Smith, a former slave and Union soldier, many battles still lie ahead. He returns to the plantation he worked on before the war in search of his woman, but … |
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Freedom's school
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Lesa Cline-Ransome |
Hungry for learning, Lizzie and her brother Paul attend a new school built for freed slaves.
Hungry for learning, Lizzie and her brother, Paul, attend a new school built for freed slaves. |
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Balm
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Dolen Perkins-Valdez |
"Set during the [era after the Civil War] and exploring the next chapter of history--the end of slavery--this ... story of love and healing is about three people who struggle to overcome the pain of … |
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After Appomattox
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Gregory P. Downs |
"The Civil War did not end at Appomattox Court House. Nor did it end at the surrenders that followed in North Carolina, Texas, and Indian Country. The Civil War dragged on for at least five years aft… |
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Pharaoh
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Wilbur Smith |
Royal advisor and former slave Taita is caught up in a whirlpool of ruthless intrigue that tests the limits of his intelligence, alchemy, and cunning as he endeavors to protect the empire, his Pharao… |
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