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Huck is a young, naive white boy fleeing from his drunken, dangerous Pa and Jim is a runaway slave longing to be reunited with his family. Flung together by circumstance, they journey down the Mississippi together on a log raft, each in search of his own definition of freedom. Their daring adventures along the way provide both entertainment and a satirical look at the moral values of the Deep South of the 1800s.
4) Soul catcher
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
418 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Description
Struggling to forget a war-marked past and a future compromised by poor choices and debt, slave tracker Augustus Cain is hired by a plantation owner to retrieve a runaway slave named Rosetta.
6) Flying free
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
103 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
In 1858, nine-year-old Corey Birdsong and his family, fugitive slaves from Kentucky, build a new life in Amherstburg, Canada, while still hoping to help those they left behind.
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Description
The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.
9) Bell's Star
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 2
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Description
In the Vermont spring of 1853, Bell's Star, a Morgan horse, and his owner Katie rescue a runaway slave and try to outwit the slave catchers in order to help her to freedom.
10) Freedom bird
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Description
In the antebellum South, two siblings shelter a large, mysterious, wounded bird and eventually follow it west toward freedom.
11) Moonlit shadows
Author
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Description
The ladies of the Wayfarers Inn have planned a sweetheart banquet, but everything goes wrong. Meanwhile, Janice suspects her son Stuart has been keeping a very big secret from her.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Fleeing the South Carolina plantation where he has spent his entire life, eighteen-year-old slave Jonah Williams uses the stars to escape to the North and is pursued by both slave hunters and a free-spirited fellow slave who believes Jonah can help her secure her own freedom.
16) The bell rang
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
A slave family is distressed when they discover their son Ben has run away.
19) Washington Black
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Pub. Date
2018.
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"FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE and THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE. George Washington Black, or "Wash," an eleven-year-old field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is terrified to be chosen by his master's brother as his manservant. To his surprise, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even...
Author
Series
Saddler's legacy volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
395 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
On a small farm in 19th-century Ohio, Ann dreams of a marriage proposal from her poetic suitor, Eli. When she travels to Pittsburgh with her father on business, Will shows her that nobility is more than fine words. When the Millers return to Ohio and their ministry there, Will resolves to find them at any cost. Will Ann be waiting?
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