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Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern day slavery Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States. In 'The Slave Next Door ' we learn that slaves are all around us, hidden in plain sight: the dishwasher in the kitchen of the neighborhood restaurant, the kids on the corner selling cheap trinkets, the man sweeping the floor of the local department...
47) Alta
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1286
Publisher
Daw
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
48) Washington Black
Author
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or "Titch," is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor, and abolitionist. He initiates Wash into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky; where...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 830L
Language
English
Description
Combines first-person historical accounts, traditional black spirituals, and passages about the daily lives of slaves to provide a chronicle of slavery in America.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888"--
Author
Series
American girls collection volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Addy Walker escapes from a cruel life of slavery to freedom during the Civil War.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 790L
Language
English
Description
Presents the author's meditations on twenty paintings by artist Rod Brown, designed to encourage reflection on the hardships faced by African-American slaves until their emancipation.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"This exciting interdisciplinary volume, featuring contributions from a group of leading international scholars, reflects on the long history of representations of transatlantic slaves and slavery, encompassing a broad chronological range, from the eighteenth century to the present day"--Provided by publisher.
