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Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
427 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Why would a runaway Virginia slave--having built a rewarding life in the East Indies as a silk merchant--risk everything by returning to America in 1840, eighteen years after taking her freedom? Anibaddh Lyngdoh claims that she intends to introduce a new kind of silk to the floundering American silk industry. But her true reason is to find the child she abandoned when she ran away.
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Formats
Description
When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.
23) Remembrance
Author
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates book
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
416 pages cm
Description
"Remembrance...It's a rumor, a whisper passed in the fields and veiled behind sheets of laundry. A hidden stop on the underground road to freedom, a safe haven protected by more than secrecy...if you can make it there. Ohio, present day. A refugee struggling to rebuild her life in America after the devastating Haitian earthquake is suddenly inexplicably bound to a mysterious old woman who is not at all what she seems. Haiti, 1791, on the brink of...
25) Spring will come
Author
Series
Bregdan Chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Bregdan Publishing
Pub. Date
©2010.
Physical Desc
485 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"As her beloved city of Richmond is transformed into a deadly Civil War battlefield, spirited Carrie Cromwell puts her medical skills to work in a Confederate hospital. While she fights to save unknown soldiers, the one she cares about the most is lost to her. Meanwhile in the North, Carrie's dear friends, former slaves Rose and Moses, have found freedom at last -- only to be separated by war. Can Moses, now a Union spy, elude those who are searching...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
x, 242 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
"It is 1864 and Eliza Spooner's husband Will has joined the Kansas volunteers to fight the Confederates, leaving her with their two children and in charge of their home and land. Eliza is confident that he will return home, and she helps pass the months making a special quilt to keep Will warm during his winter months in the army. When the unthinkable happens, she takes in a a woman and child who have been left alone and made vulnerable by the war,...
27) Wench: a novel
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"Tawawa House in many respects is like any other American resort before the Civil War. Situated in Ohio, this idyllic retreat is particularly nice in the summer when the Southern humidity is too much to bear. The main building, with its luxurious finishes, is loftier than the white cottages that flank it, but then again, the smaller structures are better positioned to catch any breeze that may come off the pond. And they provide more privacy, which...
Author
Series
Bregdan chronicles volume 5
Publisher
Bregdan Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017?]
Physical Desc
477 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"The power of the Union army brings the South to its knees in surrender, but not until a year of intense pain and chaos creates a chasm that may be impossible for the country to bridge. Carrie struggles to hold on to hope as the world caves in around her; hanging on to the promise she has been given. She also finally gets to reveal the secret she has held so close. Moses is gravely wounded in battle. Robert's plantation takes a severe loss, but is...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xlvii, 480 p., [14] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Description
An interpretation of the American classic refutes statements about the work's dehumanizing qualities as cited by James Baldwin in 1955, explaining how it served to raise period awareness about slavery and abolitionism and continues to provide insight into modern race relations and other social issues.
Author
Publisher
Kaylie Jones Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
336 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Description
1835, Utica, New York. Newlywed Helen Galway discovers two runaway slaves hiding in the shack behind her husband's house and is suddenly faced with a terrible dilemma. Should she be a good wife and report the fugitives? Or should she help them? Meanwhile, Utica itself is caught between stark divisions as abolitionists arrive for the founding meeting of the New York State Anti-Slavery Society and newspapers accuse the group of being insurrectionists...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
334 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"In the 1800s in Dunmore, a Canadian town settled by people fleeing enslavement in the American south, young Lensinda Martin works for a crusading Black journalist. One night, a neighboring farmer summons Lensinda after a slave hunter is shot dead on his land by an old woman who recently arrived via the Underground Railroad. When the old woman refuses to flee before the authorities arrive, the farmer urges Lensinda to gather testimony from her before...
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
©2016
Physical Desc
10 CDs (11 hrs, 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An escaped slave, a white orphan, and a Creek Indian are being hunted down for murder in the 18th-century American South. A probing French tracker must decide which has a greater claim: swift justice or his curiosity about how three such different, desperate men could act in unison. "Precise, poetic language... rich with insights about history and the human heart."?Publishers Weekly
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