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3) Juneteenth
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Learn about how freedom came to the slaves in June 1865.
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Infinity ring volume 3
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"Dak, Sera, and Riq return to the United States and walk right into a deadly trap. The year is 1850, and the nation is divided over the issue of slavery. In these dark days, the Underground Railroad provides a light of hope, helping runaway slaves escape to freedom. But the SQ has taken control of the Underground Railroad from within. Now Dak and Sera are left wondering who to trust ... while Riq risks everything to save the life of a young boy"--P....
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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453 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"By 1850, with America on the verge of collapse, Congress reached what it hoped was a solution-- the notorious Compromise of 1850, which required that fugitive slaves be returned to their masters. Like so many political compromises before and since, it was a deal by which white Americans tried to advance their interests at the expense of black Americans. Yet the Fugitive Slave Act, intended to preserve the Union, in fact set the nation on the path...
17) Finding freedom
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American girl BeForever. Addy, 1864 volume 1
Addy classic volume 1
American girl BeForever. Addy 1864 volume 1
Addy classic volume 1
American girl BeForever. Addy 1864 volume 1
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American Girl
Pub. Date
[2020]
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119 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm.
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Addy's family is planning to escape from slavery, but before they can go, her father and brother are sold away and when Addy and her mother decide to run, they have to leave Addy's baby sister behind.
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In this 'essential' new work, Noel Rae integrates firsthand accounts into a narrative history that brings the reader face to face with slavery's everyday reality, expertly weaving together narratives that span hundreds of years. From the travel journals of sixteenth-century Spanish settlers who offered religious instruction and 'protection' in exchange for farm labor, to the diaries of poetess Phillis Wheatley and Reverend Cotton Mather, to Central...
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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.
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2006
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96 p. : ill., map ; 29 cm.
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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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