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Author
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"King uses a wide range of sources to examine the experiences of free black women in both the North and the South, from the colonial period through emancipation, showing how they became free, educated themselves, found jobs, maintained self-esteem, and developed social consciousness--even participating in the abolitionist movement"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House Publishers LTD
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Benjamin January is called up to Vicksburg, deep in cotton-plantation country, to help a wounded 'conductor' of the Underground Railroad, the secret network of safe-houses that guide escaping slaves to freedom. When the chief 'conductor' of the 'station' is found murdered, Jubal Cain, the coordinator of the whole Railroad system in Mississippi is accused of the crime. Since Cain can't expose the nature of his involvement in the railroad, January...
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Marie-Grace Gardner, a doctor's daughter who has just returned to her native New Orleans in 1853, makes friends with Cécile Rey, whose prosperous family are free people of color, and is persuaded to change places with her at separate Mardi Gras balls.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When slave owner Simon Fourchet asks Benjamin January to investigate sabotage, arson, and murder on his plantation, January is reluctant to do any favors for the savage man who owned him until he was seven. But he knows too well that plantation justice means that if the true culprit is not found, every slave on Mon Triomphe will suffer. Abandoning his Parisian French for the African patois of the field hand, cutting cane until his bones ache and his...
11) Meet Cécile
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Cécile Rey, whose prosperous family are free people of color, makes friends with Marie-Grace Gardner, a doctor's daughter who has just returned to her native New Orleans in 1853, and persuades her to change places at their separate Mardi Gras balls.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Cécile is enjoying her older brother Armand's return from France and her growing friendship with Marie-Grace, with whom she volunteers at an orphanage, until the yellow fever epidemic theatening New Orleans strikes her own household.
16) Cécile's gift
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Now that the yellow fever epidemic is over, the people of New Orleans raise money to care for the orphans, and Cécile seeks to discover something special she can to do help.