Search Results: Returned 11 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 11
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2013., Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The story of a child who arrived in America on the slave ship Amistad, describing her capture, her witness to a mutiny, and the Supreme Court trial that allowed her to return to her home in Sierra Leone.
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2017., Adolescent, Bloomsbury Call No: HISTORICAL F BOL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Freed from slavery, Mariah and her young brother Zeke join Sherman's march through Georgia, where Mariah meets a free black named Caleb and dares to imagine the possibility of true love, but hope can come at a cost.
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2022., General, Little, Brown and Company Call No: Historical Fic Alexander Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century"--
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By Taylor, Kim[2023]., Primary, Holiday House Call No: E Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A Flag for Juneteenth depicts a close-knit community of enslaved African Americans on a plantation in Texas, the day before the announcement is to be made that all enslaved people are free. Young Huldah, who is preparing to celebrate her tenth birthday, can't possibly anticipate how much her life will change that Juneteenth morning. The story follows Huldah and her community as they process the news of their freedom and celebrate together by creating a community freedom flag"--From the publisher's web site.
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c1999., Juvenile, Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Mentu, an American-born slave boy, watches his beloved grandmother, Twi, lead the insurrection at Teakettle Creek of Ibo people arriving from Africa on a slave ship.
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[2018], Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition, February 2018. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: HISTORICAL F CUR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.
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c2006, Pre-adolescent, Wendy Lamb Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An account of the life of Bass Reeves.
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-- Kindred2017., Adolescent, Abrams ComicArts Call No: GN BUT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space from her loving home in 1970s California to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it.
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c2010., Pre-adolescent, Random House Call No: 741.5 LAG Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Graham and Brody, two slaves on the run prior to the American Revolution, gain extraordinary powers and, on the advice of Benjamin Franklin, try to go unnoticed, but their other mentor, Benjamin Lay, has different plans for them that involve masks and the African martial art of Dambe.
![The sons of liberty. [1] /](/LibraryG/images/~imageCT205644.JPG "The sons of liberty. [1] /")
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c1993, Juvenile, Knopf Call No: E HOP Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A young slave stitches a quilt with a map pattern which guides her to freedom in Canada.