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Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1991]
Physical Desc
xi, 252 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Harriet Hemings, rumored to be the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, one of his black slaves, struggles with the problems facing her--to escape from the velvet cage that is Monticello, or to stay, and thus remain a slave.
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 170 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It is 1864, the Civil War is moving toward an end. President Lincoln has proclaimed his 'great measure, ' and Southern slaves are slowly gaining their freedom. But for thirteen-year-old Eulinda, a house slave on a Georgia plantation, it is the most difficult time of her life.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1863 Pennsylvania, fourteen-year-old Tacy faces the horrors of the Battle of Gettysburg while trying to stay out of the way of her brother David, who is in charge while their father serves as a doctor in the Union army, and to keep her friend Marvelous, a free black, safe from rebel soldiers.
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