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Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom
When slaves on the ship Amistad rebelled and tried to return home to Africa, they were captured and embroiled in legal battles of slavery and abolition in the U.S. The book includes sections on Further Reading, Bibliography, Epilogue, and endpaper courtr
| Author: Myers, Walter Dean |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Anthony Burns
The subtitle of this book is "The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave." Especially appropriate for use in GED classrooms, Anthony Burns is based on fact and includes a timeline and historical footnotes. Hamilton fills out the details to crea
| Author: Hamilton, Virginia |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Black Hands, White Sails
This book is mostly about the Atlantic whaling industry and the contributions of African American whalers. But it's also about abolition, the Underground Railroad, the Fugitive Slave Act, and the Civil War. And it's about U.S. economics in the 18th and 19
| Author: McKissack, Patricia, & McKissack, Frederick |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | science
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Black Legacy
This history of African Americans in New York City from a Dutch colony to the 1990's contains 18 chapters, documents and maps, Endnotes, a bibliography, and an index.
| Author: Katz, William |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
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Freedom Light
The book recounts the heroism of the people of Ripley, Ohio, both black and white, in their antislavery activities as a part of the Underground Railroad. Included are a timeline, biographical notes on John and Jean Rankin and John Parker, a glossary, and
| Author: Gaines, Edith |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Good Brother, Bad Brother
Subtitled "The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth," this long biography portrays their lives before and after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. This is a GED level book.
| Author: Giblin, James Cross |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Jayhawker
With the U.S. on the verge of civil war, Elijah Tully and his father ride out of Kansas as Jayhawkers, guerrilla fighters against slavery. After his father is killed, Lije goes undercover among the proslavery bushwhackers to help the abolitionists and t
| Author: Beatty, Patricia |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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John Brown: One Man Against Slavery
This book tells the story of John Brown, White abolitionist and dissident, from the point of view of his daughter Annie. The book brings historical ideas and moral conflicts alive in a personal and elaborate way. The book answers the question: Can one p
| Author: Everett, Gwen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Lincoln: A Photobiography
This is a carefully researched, well illustrated, fascinating biography of Abraham Lincoln.
| Author: Freedman, Russell |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Only Passing Through
Strong illustrations help tell this biography of Sojourner Truth. An Author's Note updates the relevance of Sojourner Truth and provides a helpful timeline.
| Author: Rockwell, Anne |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Separate Battle, A: Women and the Civil War
This must-have addition to a Civil War collection weaves together stories of slave women, abolitionists, women's rights leaders, and famous and not-so-famous women to offer a look at women's experiences during the Civil War. Diaries and letters are frequ
| Author: Chang, Ina |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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When Harriet Met Sojourner
The author imagines the meeting of two brave activists for the freeing of slaves --Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman when they were in Boston in 1864. The story is told with the aid of very powerful artwork.
| Author: Clinton, Catherine |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass
Born a slave with little hope of ever learning to read, this story of Frederick Douglas, a man determined to read despite huge hurdles, provides an inspiring story for people of all ages.
| Author: Cline-Ransome, Lisa |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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