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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In 1838, a group of America's most prominent Catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their mission, the fledgling Georgetown University. Journalist, author, and professor Rachel L. Swarns has broken new ground with her prodigious research into a history that the Catholic Church has edited out of its own narrative. Beginning in the present, when two descendants of a family enslaved by the church reconnect, Swarns follows their ancestors...
Author
Publisher
Dragonfly Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Lexile measure
AD 990L
Language
English
Description
Mama and Papa Love have a child, the Invisible Princess, who saves them and the other plantation slaves from their cruel master so that they can all find happiness in the Invisible Village of Peace, Freedom, and Love.
6) The trap
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Having become embroiled in one troublesome situation after another while living on his uncle's plantation in South Carolina in 1861, eleven-year-old Austin eventually accuses his older relative of hypocrisy.
7) Paul and the rise of the slave: death and resurrection of the oppressed in the epistle to the Romans
Author
Series
Biblical interpretation volume Volume 141
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
In 1857, while helping to conceal a runaway slave on her father's Mississippi River steamboat, twelve-year-old Libby looks to God for support and hopes that her friend Caleb will let her join the Underground Railroad.
9) Escape!
Author
Series
Publisher
Soundprints
Pub. Date
c1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While on a visit to the Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Emma finds herself as a runaway slave using the Underground Railroad to make her way to freedom in Canada.
Author
Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"46.8 million Americans identify as Black and make up 14 percent of the population. Fourteen percent might seem like a relatively small portion of Americans in general. But as the centuries of struggle by Black Americans--first to escape slavery and then to try to achieve true equality in its ugly wake--neatly parallels the story of American democracy itself"--
11) The escape
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As fighting erupts between the North and the South, eleven-year-old Austin helps his slave friend gain freedom before making his own escape from Charleston, South Carolina.
13) Let us descend
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long...
Author
Publisher
Glorybound Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This is a historical novel which takes place in late 1800's to mid 1900's. Twelve-year-old Lena-tu-ha and her two sisters escape from the cattle car on the train carrying the Native American Apaches from their homes in Arizona to the Boarding Schools in New Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The three pubescent maidens trek across the desert with nothing but the clothes on their backs, to try to find any remnants of their tribe at the old rendezvous points...
17) Beloved
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A picture book in verse that threads together past and present to explore the legacy of slavery during a classroom lesson"--
From the fireside tales in an African village, through the unspeakable passage across the Atlantic, to the backbreaking work in the fields of the South, this is a story of a people's struggle and strength, horror and hope. This is the story of American slavery, a story that needs to be told and understood by all of us. A testament...