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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xvi, 440 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"[In this volume, the author] trace[s] the sources and highlight[s] the distinctiveness of America's central paradox by situating it in both its New World and Western contexts"--Dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xiii, 301 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner relates the dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.
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Formats
Description
"Abolitionists campaigned for freedom for enslaved people. Abolitionists used print materials, passionate speeches, and direct action to disrupt the racist system of slavery. Learn about abolitionist leaders such as Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass, setbacks and victories for the movement, and the work abolitionists continue to inspire."--Amazon.com.
5) Harriet
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
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
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2015, [2014]
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
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.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"From the creators of Voices from the Oregon Trail and Colonial Voices, an unflinching story of two young runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad, told in their voices and those who helped and hindered them It's the 1850s and enslaved siblings Jeb andMattie are about the make a break for freedom. The pair travel north from Maryland to New Bedford, Massachusetts along the Underground Railroad. Each spread tells about a step of their journey through...
10) John Brown, abolitionist: the man who killed slavery, sparked the Civil War, and seeded civil rights
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
x, 578 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
39 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
In the late 1850s, at a time when many men and women spoke out against slavery, few had the same impact as John Brown, the infamous white abolitionist who backed his beliefs with unstoppable action.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nat Turner is a literate American slave and preacher. His financially strained owner accepts an offer to use Nat's preaching to subdue unruly slaves. But as Nat witnesses countless atrocities, he orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.
"...a righteously indignant, kinetic and well-acted film."--Wall Street Journal
"...a solid and strong and valuable piece of work."--Chicago Sun-Times
"A work this powerful would be...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiv, 768 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Description
"Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in causes ranging from feminism and utopian socialism to anti-imperialism...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Frederick Douglass dismissed Myrtilla's plan to open a school for African American girls in the slaveholding South as "reckless, almost to the point of madness." But Myrtilla Miner, the daughter of poor white farmers in Madison County, New York, was relentless. Fueled by an unyielding feminist conviction, and against a tide of hostility, on December 3, 1851, the fiery educator and abolitionist opened the School for Colored Girls-the only school in...
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