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Author
Publisher
37 Ink/Atria
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xvii, 253 pages : illustrations, portrait, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Description
A revelatory account of the actions taken by the first president to retain his slaves in spite of Northern laws. Profiles one of the slaves, Ona Judge, describing the intense manhunt that ensued when she ran away.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xviii, 252 pages : map ; 22 cm
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Description
"A National Book Award Finalist for Non-Fiction, Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave, who risked everything for freedom. Now in a Young Readers Edition"--
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
A groundbreaking figure in every sense of the word, Susie King Taylor (1848-1912) was one of the first Black nurses during the Civil War, tending to the wounded soldiers of the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Afterward, she was a key figure in establishing a postbellum educational system for formerly bonded Black people, opening several dedicated schools in Georgia. Taylor was also one of the first Black women to publish her memoirs....
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