Search Results: Returned 9 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 9
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2004., Vermont Folklife Center ; Distributed by University Press of New England Call No: Easy WALTER Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The Vermont Folklife Center children's book seriesSummary Note: A young slave's journey to freedom begins when a plantation owner's granddaughter teaches him how to read. Based on the childhood of Alec Turner (1845-1923) who escaped from slavery by joining the Union Army during the Civil War and later became a landowner in Vermont.
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2000., Vermont Folklife Center Call No: E MED Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The family heritage seriesSummary Note: Daisy, an eight-year-old African-American girl living in rural Vermont in the 1890s, is given a black doll by her teacher and becomes uncomfortable that her skin is a different colorfrom that of her classmates, until she finds the courage to speak from her heart.
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2000., Juvenile, Vermont Folklife Center Call No: Easy MEDEARIS Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The family heritage seriesSummary Note: Daisy, an eight-year-old African-American girl living in rural Vermont in the 1890s, is given a black doll by her teacher and becomes uncomfortable that her skin is a different color from that of her classmates, until she finds the courage to speak from her heart.
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c1982., Troll Associates Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The biography of a slave whose flight to freedom was the first step in her becoming a "conductor" on the underground railroad.
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1993, c1988., Scholastic Call No: 326 LEV Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Told in a question-and-answer format, text provides true stories of slaves who faced many dangers to escape slavery.
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(c1988?), Juvenile, Scholastic Call No: 326 Lev (Pbk) Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explains what the Underground Railroad was, why slaves ran away, and how they were helped to escape.
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2001., Lee & Low books Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Great Aunt Lucy tells a story of her days as a slave, when she and her brother, Albert, learned the quilt code to help direct other slaves and, eventually, Albert himself, to freedom in the north.
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[1985], c1978., Little, Brown Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A young boy is pressured by his family to abandon his promising soccer career for football.
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c1978., Juvenile, Little, Brown Call No: F Chr (Pbk) Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A young boy is pressured by his family to abandon his promising soccer career for football.