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2021., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: HISTORICAL F GRE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson is all too aware that her mother, a physician, has a vision for their future together: Libertie will go to medical school and practice alongside her. But Libertie feels stifled by her mother's choices and is constantly reminded that, unlike her mother, Libertie has skin that is too dark. When a young man from Haiti proposes to Libertie and promises she will be his equal on the island, she accepts, only to discover that she is still subordinate to him and all men. As she tries to parse what freedom actually means for a Black woman, Libertie struggles with where she might find it--for herself and for generations to come"--Provided by the publisher.
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2016., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: YOUNG ADULT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The Freeman family, Charles, Laurel, and their three daughters, move to rural Massachusetts to participate in a research experiment, but the family's isolation becomes the source of their undoing, and they soon learn the history of this Institute's history of questionable studies...
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2016., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: HISTORICAL 813 .6 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: When a young chimp named Charlie is abandoned by his mother, Laurel and Charles Freeman and their two daughters, nine-year-old Callie and high school freshman Charlotte, agree to participate in an experiment in which they will live with Charlie at the Toneybee Institute in rural Massachusetts and teach him sign language. As African Americans in a nearly all-white community, they have no idea they are entering an institution that has been historically ruled by racism and misconduct. And as Charlotte discovers the shocking truth of the institute's past, the family struggles to cope with the isolation created by their situation and the disturbing facts that are emerging around them.
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2017., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: Realistic FIC Greenidge Edition: First paperback edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: When a young chimp named Charlie is abandoned by his mother, Laurel and Charles Freeman and their two daughters, nine-year-old Callie and high school freshman Charlotte, agree to participate in an experiment in which they will live with Charlie at the Toneybee Institute in rural Massachusetts and teach him sign language. As African Americans in a nearly all-white community, they have no idea they are entering an institution that has been historically ruled by racism and misconduct. And as Charlotte discovers the shocking truth of the institute's past, the family struggles to cope with the isolation created by their situation and the disturbing facts that are emerging around them.
