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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
The story follows Hetty 'Handful' Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. The Invention of Wings follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go beyond...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history. Posing as master and slave, while sustained by their love as husband and wife, they made their escape together across more than 1,000 miles, riding out in the open on steamboats, carriages, and trains that took them from bondage in Georgia to the free states of the North.
Along...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a wealthy slave-holding family from Richmond, Virginia, Caroline Fletcher is raised in a culture that believes slavery is God-ordained and biblically acceptable. But upon awakening to the cruelty and injustice it encompasses, Caroline's eyes are opened for the first time to the men and women who have cared tirelessly for her. Her journey of maturity and faith will draw her into the abolitionist movement, where she is confronted with...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Slavery in America destroyed countless lives and led to a war that nearly tore the country in half. Many brave Americans fought to abolish slavery and to provide equality for all people. It took a Civil War and three amendments to the United States Constitution to end slavery and give African Americans their rights.--Publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of the man who escaped slavery in Maryland to become a speaker and writer for abolition and the rights of African Americans and women, focusing on his childhood and youth as a slave.--From the publisher.
Author
Publisher
Grollier
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of the energetic abolitionist, including her origins as a slave in Maryland, her role as a conductor for the Underground Railroad, her service to the Union during the Civil War, and her role in establishing an old-age home for African Americans.
10) Harriet
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, the movie tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
How did Frederick Douglass fight against the evils of slavery? After freeing himself, Douglass became a vocal opponent of slavery, and his speeches and writings reached people around the world.--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Frederick Douglass wrote: It is not ... the height to which I have risen, but the depth from which I have come that amazes me. This biography tells the story of his ascent from slavery.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of abolitionist John Brown and the raid he led on the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in 1859, exploring his religious fanaticism and belief in righteous violence, --and committment to domestic terrorism.--Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
The story follows Hetty 'Handful' Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. The Invention of Wings follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go beyond...
16) Underground
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the Underground Railroad, narrated by a group of slaves.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Coretta Scott King Honor winner Bolden sheds light on new research and interpretations of one of America's most influential African Americans. She focuses on Douglass the man rather than the historical icon. In chronicling his shortcomings and the low points in his life as well as his victories, Bolden creates a portrait of this relentless warrior as a speaker, a once-enslaved abolitionist, but most importantly, as a human being.--Publisher
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Author Nancy Horan returns with a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. President to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who arrives in Lincoln's home of Springfield from Madeira, Portugal.
Showing intelligence beyond society's expectations, thirteen-year-old Ana Ferreira lands a job in the Lincoln household assisting Mary Lincoln with their boys and...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It is a new century and with it comes the promise of a hopeful future, but the past casts a long shadow over Cornwall. Following the death of Elizabeth, Ross Poldark resolves to put Westminster behind him and spend more time with the people he loves. However, when an old friend emerges with a plea for help, Ross is compelled to challenge the establishment again.
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