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83) The purchase
Author
Language
English
Description
Shunned by his Quaker community for marrying a servant girl, Daniel Dickinson pursues a new life on the Virginia frontier, where his family's values are tested by the challenges of homestead life and the moral dilemma of slave ownership.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"While the plantation accounts for 90% of slave ownership and experience in the Americas, its centrality to the common conceptions of slavery has arguably led to an oversimplified understanding of its multifarious forms and complex dynamics in the region. The Many Faces of Slavery explores non-traditional forms of slavery that existed outside the plantation system to illustrate the pluralities of slave ownership and experiences in the Americas, from...
94) Steal away home
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
In two parallel stories, a Quaker family in Kansas in the late 1850s operates a station on the Underground Railroad, while almost 150 years later twelve-year-old Dana moves into the same house and finds the skeleton of a black woman who helped the Quakers.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
There are more slaves in the world today than at any time in history. In this account of contemporary slavery, journalist Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told--and heard. With years of reporting in such places as Haiti, Sudan, India, Eastern Europe, The Netherlands, and, yes, even suburban America, Skinner has produced a moving reportage on one of the great evils of our time. After spending four years infiltrating...
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
Follows the course of slavery in Mesopotamia and Egypt, examining how this practice began and spread, the work slaves did, and the impact of slavery on ancient societies.
Publisher
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Map showing expansion of slavery in the United States including all of Mexico and Cuba. Statistical text provides the following information: number of Congressional representatives and Senate members of free and slave states as well as population; annual receipts from postage and mail transportation in the slave states as compared to the costs in free states; the number of slaves in the United States as well as the number of slaveholders.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment and that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II. In this narrative, the nineteenth century's absence is conspicuous--few have considered that era seriously, much less written books on it. But as Jenny Martinez shows in this novel interpretation of the roots of human rights...