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Series
Language
English
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Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, Northup published...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During a visit to her grandfather's plantation in Virginia during the summer of 1775, Felicity's loyalty is torn between her father and Ben, her father's apprentice who needs her help as he runs away to join George Washington's army of Patriots.
Author
Series
Carolina cousins volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"The tragic romance of Emma and a wounded 'buffalo soldier.' When the two fall in love, it poses problems for William McSimmons' political career. Can their love keep them together?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Like her mother, Rue is an all-knowing midwife, healer, and conjurer of curses on the plantation of Marse Charles. Moving back and forth in time between the years before and after the Civil War, this novel tells the story of Rue, the families she cares for, and the mysteries and secrets she knows about the plantation owner's daughter, Varina. At the heart of this story is the intimate bonds and transgressions among people and across racial divides,...
Author
Series
Brides series (Deeanne Gist) volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Set in 1640's Colonial Virginia, a marriage of convenience becomes most inconvenient when the bride proves more than the planter had bargained for"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Moments after Lisbeth is born, she's taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus begins an intense relationship that will shape both of their lives for decades to come. Though Lisbeth leads a life of privilege, she finds nothing but loneliness in the company of her overwhelmed mother and her distant, slave-owning father. As she...
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1776, eleven-year-old Felicity runs the household while her mother and siblings are away, but is distracted by her horse's ill health, two strangers in town, and the fear that a box of family heirlooms is haunted. Includes historical information about life in colonial Williamsburg.
11) Never too late
Author
Series
Carolina cousins volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Fire. It had ripped Seffie from her family and stolen her dearest friend. Will she allow it to destroy her one chance at happiness? Growing up a slave, Seffie served as companion to a sickly white girl and learned to read and write and even speak French. But her life of relative comfort soon comes to an end. When loss and tragedy drive the joy from her life, Seffie quickly learns to guard her heart and hide her past. Secretly, Seffie nurtures a new...
Author
Series
Carolina cousins volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The Stirring Conclusion to the Carolina Cousins Series! A lone rider galloped through the night. He could not slow down or it would be too late. Many lives, and his own future, depended on his getting there in time.... Winds of change are blowing over the Carolina cotton fields . . . changes that will rock the lives of all those who live at the Rosewood Plantation. Katie and Mayme are young women now. Jeremiah has left to seek work in the city. Can...
Author
Series
Bregdan Chronicles volume 1
Publisher
A Voice In The World Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
"Carrie Cromwell comes of age as the dark clouds of the Civil War swallow the country. Born with a fiery spirit and a strong mind, she finds herself struggling between the common wisdom of the South and the truth she has discovered. The activities of the Underground Railroad and her close friendships with the Cromwell Plantation slaves create difficult choices. But when her decisions put her at odds with her heritage, and challenge her dreams, will...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
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Mount Vernon Love Story was the first novel written by Mary Higgins Clark, the bestselling author of twenty-two novels that have made her America's Queen of Suspense. The role of leader came naturally to George Washington, the man revered as "the father of his Country." But when it came to the social aspects of life in the mid-18th century, he was both awkward and insecure. It was only through the love of a woman that he found the happiness that gave...
Author
Series
Carolina cousins volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"In a new series related to his bestselling Shenandoah sisters, Michael Phillips returns to the post-Civil War South in a story of forgiveness, danger and love"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
“My Bondage and My Freedom”, by Frederick Douglass. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
• Footnotes and endnotes
• Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired...
17) 12 years a slave
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was abducted in Washington, D.C., and forced to spend the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the history of slavery in the United States, from colonial times to the end of the Civil War, and includes information on the slave trade, the Underground Railroad, and the lives of African Americans after emancipation.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Born on a plantation but set apart from the others by her mother's position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at eighteen and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail.
Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. Instead she finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil's Half-Acre, a jail where slaves are broken, tortured,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book tells of the first arrival of slaves from Africa in America, what daily life was like for an American slave, efforts by abolitionists to abolish slavery, and more.
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