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-- Five thousand miles to freedom.c2006., Juvenile, National Geographic Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ellen and William Craft were two of the few slaves to ever escape from the Deep South. Their first escape took them to Philadelphia, then on to Boston pursued by slave hunters, and finally 5000 miles across the ocean to England, where they were able to settle peacefully.
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c2004., Pre-adolescent, Smart Apple Media Call No: 306.3 62 0973 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Recounts the history of slavery and the slave trade in the United States discussing their causes, the slave experience, the Civil War, and Reconstruction and its aftermath.
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2003., Pre-adolescent, Smart Apple Media Call No: 306.3 62 0973 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Questioning historySummary Note: Recounts the history of slavery and the slave trade in the United States discussing their causes, the slave experience, the Civil War, and Reconstruction and its aftermath.
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c1993., Juvenile, Carolrhoda Books Call No: 973.7 115 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Recounts how Allen Jay, a young Quaker boy living in Ohio during the 1840s, helped a fleeing slave escape his master and make it to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
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-- American Revolutionc2015., Pre-adolescent, Child's World Call No: 973 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Wars in U.S. history.Summary Note: Presents an overview of the American Revolution, including history, important people and battles, and a timeline of events.
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-- York of the Lewis and Clark Expedition2006., Juvenile, Calkins Creek Books Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents an account of how William Clark's slave, York, helped during the Lewis and Clark Expedition, discussing the man's skills, strength, and intelligence.
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1989, c1950., Juvenile, Puffin Books Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.
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1989, c1950., Juvenile, Puffin books Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Publisher description More... Series Title: Puffin Newbery librarySummary Note: The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.
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-- Ancient Romansc2017., Pre-adolescent, GARETH STEVENS PUBLISHING Call No: 937 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This entertaining and instructive volume abounds with interesting facts about the ancient Romans that will appeal to a wide range of readers.
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c1988., A.A. Knopf Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of the slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrested at the instigation of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between abolitionists and those determined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts.
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c1988., Juvenile, Scholastic Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of the slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrested at the instigation of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between abolitionists and those determined to enforce the fugitive slave acts.
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2006., Juvenile, Albert Whitman Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Biography of a little slave girl whipped for eating an apple, who later grew up to become a famous "conductor" for the underground railroad.
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c2000., Juvenile, Clarion Books Call No: 973.7 115 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Twelve true accounts of slaves who escaped to freedom from slavery in the American South before the Civil War. Harriet Tubman, Solomon Northup, John Anderson, Ann Maria Weems, Mary Prince, William Wells Brown.
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1990., Juvenile, Atheneum ; Collier Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International Pub. Group Call No: 975 Kat Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes slavery in the United States, the harsh conditions under which slaves lived, the active and passive resistance with which they fought for their rights, the revolts, and the involvement of slaves in the Civil War.
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[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Holiday House Call No: HI-INT 920 MCC Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Draws on primary source documents and photographs of historical artifacts to examine the lives of men and women enslaved by the Washington family, and includes information on the present-day archeological survey of Mount Vernon's Slave Cemetery.
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c1995, Juvenile, Raintree Steck-Vaughn Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: History eyewitness
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2000., Carolrhoda Books Call No: 973.7 14 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Picture the American pastSummary Note: 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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c1994., Scholastic Call No: 394.26 CHRISTMAS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War.
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c1994., Juvenile, Scholastic Call No: 975 .302 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War.
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[1999], c2000., Raintree Steck-Vaughn Call No: 973.8 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the aftermath of the Civil War, including the assassination of Lincoln, Reconstruction, and the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant.