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  Uncle Tom's Cabin

  Or, Life Among the Lowly

  by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowe s rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and responsible for the sin of slavery, and resoundingly concludes that only 'repentance, justice and mercy' will prevent the onset of 'the wrath of Almighty God!'.
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  Dear America: Book 14

  A Light in the Storm

  The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861

  by Karen Hesse

  Newberry Medallist Karen Hesse pens the diary of a Union girl living in the divided state of Delaware during the explosive first year of the Civil War.
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  Narrative of Sojourner Truth

  by Olive Gilbert

  This inspiring memoir, first published in 1850, recounts the struggles a distinguished African-American abolitionist and champion of women’s rights. Sojourner Truth tells of her life in slavery, her self-liberation, and her travels across America in pursuit of racial and sexual equality. Essential reading for students of American history.
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  Moses

  When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom

  by Carole Boston Weatherford, Kadir Nelson

  This poetic book is a resounding tribute to Tubman's strength, humility, and devotion. With proper reverence, Weatherford and Nelson do justice to the woman who, long ago, earned over and over the name Moses.
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  Amazing Grace

  William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery

  by Eric Metaxas

  Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament. At the center of this heroic life was a passionate twenty-year fight to abolish the British slave trade, a battle Wilberforce won in 1807, as well as... (more)
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  The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

  by Jane Smiley

  THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres "Rousing . . . Action-packed . . . A gripping story about love, fortitude, and convictions that are worth fighting for." -- Los Angeles Times A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK "POWERFUL . . . Smiley takes us back to Kansas in 1855, a place of rising passions and vast uncertainties. Narrated in the spirited,... (more)
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  Only Passing Through

  The Story of Sojourner Truth

  by Anne Rockwell, R. Gregory Christie

  A powerful picture book biography of one of the abolitionist movement's most compelling voices. Sojourner Truth traveled the country in the latter half of the 19th century, speaking out against slavery. She told of a slave girl who was sold three times by age 13, who was beaten for not understanding her master's orders, who watched her parents die of cold and hunger when they could no longer work for their keep.... (more)
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  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

  by Frederick Douglass

  Frederick Douglass (1817?-1895) was born into slavery by a slave mother and an unknown father. At the age of 8, he started to educate himself with the help of his master's wife. In 1838, he fled Baltimore for the North. There he soon became a noted author and speaker on slavery. Douglass wrote three autobiographies, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" (1845), "My Bondage and My Freedom" (1855)... (more)
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  Under the Quilt of Night

  by Deborah Hopkinson

  Award-winning duo Deborah Hopkinson and James E. Ransome combine their talents once more for this sequel to the best-selling Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. Traveling late one night, a runaway slave girl spies a quilt hanging outside a house. The quilt's center is a striking deep blue -- a sign that the people inside are willing to help her escape. Can she bravely navaigate the complex world of the... (more)
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  Black Abolitionists

  by Benjamin Quarles

  While much is known about the white men and women who were involved in the anti-slavery movement, the black abolitionists have been largely ignored. This book, written by one of America’s leading black historians, sets the record straight. As Benjamin Quarles shows, blacks were anything but passive in the abolitionist movement. Many of the pioneers of abolition were black; dozens of black preachers and writers... (more)
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  John Brown's War Against Slavery

  by Robert E. McGlone

  Drawing on both new and neglected evidence, this book reconstructs Old John Brown's aborted "war" to free the 3.8 million slaves in the American South before the Civil War. It critiques misleading sources that either exalt Brown's "heroism" and noble purpose or condemn his "monomania" and "lawlessness". McGlone explains the sources of his obsession with slavery and his notorious crime at Pottawatomie Creek in... (more)
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  Across the Wide River

  by Stephanie Reed

  The red brick home of Rev. John Rankin is a beacon—the first northern stop on the Underground Railroad. Across the Ohio River in Kentucky, every slave knows to look for it. They have heard that if they reach that house, they will never be captured. Across the Wide River tells the true story of the selfless sacrifices one Christian family made to help runaway slaves reach freedom.
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  America's Great Debate

  Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise that Preserved the Union

  by Fergus M. Bordewich

  The Mexican War introduced vast new territories into the United States, including California and the present-day Southwest. California appealed to join the Union, but would it and the other territories be admitted as slave or free? The Senate was precariously balanced with fifteen free states and fifteen slave. Southerners asserted that they would not tolerate any imbalance in their disfavor. Henry Clay, one of... (more)
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  Snow-storm in August

  Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835

  by Jefferson Morley

  The riveting story of how the epic struggle over slavery first violently erupted in the seat of American government. In 1835, the City of Washington was simmering. Drawn to the District of Columbia by the prospect of employment, newly freed African Americans from the South poured in, and free blacks outnumbered slaves for the first time. Meanwhile, white residents were forced to confront new ideas of what the... (more)
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  Frederick Douglass for kids : his life and times with 21 activities

  by Nancy I. Sanders

  Few Americans have had as much of an impact on this nation as Frederick Douglass. Born on a plantation, he later escaped slavery and helped others to freedom via the Underground Railroad. In time he became a bestselling author, an outspoken newspaper editor, a brilliant orator, a tireless abolitionist, and a brave civil rights leader. He was famous on both sides of the Atlantic in the years leading up to the Civil... (more)
• Black Americans in Cleveland from George Peake to Carl B. Stokes, 1796-1969Russell H. Davis

  

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  Black Americans in Cleveland from George Peake to Carl B. Stokes, 1796-1969

  by Russell H. Davis

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  Good Man Friday (A Benjamin January Mystery)

  by Barbara Hambly

  Benjamin January’s search for a missing man takes him into a dark world filled with grave robbers and slave stealers. New Orleans, 1838.  When Benjamin January suddenly finds that his services playing piano at extravagant balls held by the city’s wealthy are no longer required, he ends up agreeing to accompany sugar planter Henri Viellard and his young wife, Chloë, on a mission to Washington to find a missing... (more)
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  The Captain and The Candles

  by Gary Jay Pool

  This book is a fictionalized account of the Underground Railroad with the setting being Southwest Iowa, Southeast Nebraska, Northeast Kansas and Northwest Missouri. The story includes action, murder, secrecy and romance.Captain James Lang was a highly educated son of the southern aristocracy, and Mexican War veteran turned soldier of fortune. He has a clear-cut, well defined existence until an unusual... (more)
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  The Liberty Bell

  by Lydia Maria Francis Child

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  Great Negroes

  Past and Present

  by Russell L. Adams

  Brief one- or two-page biographies of important Negroes from ancient to modern times and from many professions including science, education, art, music, and religion.