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1) Beloved
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English
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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 begin to happen. At the center of Toni Morrison's fifth novel, which earned her the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, is an almost unspeakable act of horror and heroism: a woman brutally kills her infant daughter rather than allow her to be enslaved....
Author
Series
Numinous world volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Language
English
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The daughter of a slave taken from fallen Troy, Gull was chosen to become the voice of the Lady of the Dead and counsel kings. But when nine black ships appear, captained by exiled Prince Aeneas, she joins him as his guide and leads him to his destiny.
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English
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In 1849, Pola has faced horror upon horror at the plantation ironically named Hacienda Paraíso, from endless degradations to rapes and beatings, her infants stolen and sold. Pola finally flees, confident in the protection of the Yoruba water goddess, Yemayá. Yet she is recaptured, beaten nearly to death, and sold to the owner of Hacienda las Mercedes. There Pola finds a very different life, one not without its dangers but with the potential for...
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Series
Mark of the lion volume 1
Language
English
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Torn by her love for a handsome aristocrat, a young slave girl clings to her faith in the living God for deliverance from the forces of decadent Rome.
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English
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Born in West Africa in the mid-eighteenth century, Maryam Prescilla Grace--a.k.a "Momma Grace" will live a long, wondrous life marked by hardship, oppression, opportunity, and love. Though she will be "gifted" various names, her birth name is known to her alone. Over the course of 100-plus years, she survives capture, enslavement by several property owners, the Atlantic crossing when she is only eleven years of age, and a brief stint as a pirate's...
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English
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On a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleeping quarters and gather in the woods under the cover of night. The Lucys--as they call the plantation owners, after Lucifer himself--have decided to turn around the farm's bleak financial prospects by making the women bear children. They have hired a "stockman" to impregnate them. But the women are determined to protect themselves. Now each of the six faces a choice. Nan, the...
8) Unconfessed
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Series
Mark of the lion volume 2
Language
English
Description
They knew her as Rapha, the healer. What they didn't know was that beneath the veils was a woman they had both loved a woman who was supposed to be dead.
Author
Publisher
G. Braziller
Pub. Date
[1977]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows the fortunes of Ogbanje Ojebeta, a Nigerian woman who is sold into slavery in her own land after disease and tragedy leave her orphaned as a child. In her fellow slaves, she finds a surrogate family that clings together under the unbending rule of their master. As Ogbanje Ojebeta becomes a woman and discovers her need for home and family, and for freedom and identity, she realizes that she must ultimately choose her own destiny.
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Grace in Africa volume 2
Publisher
Abingdon Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Grace is safe and free-- but still alone. Her husband is aboard a slave ship bound for America, and an old enemy has a more sinister plan for Grace. Will she find God reaching out to her, as she strives to be reunited with her husband?
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English
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On the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue, an island consumed by the flames of revolution, a senseless attack leaves only one survivor-- an infant girl who falls into the hands of two French émigrés. They take the beautiful child they call Ruth to the bustling American city of Savannah. What follows is the sweeping tale of Ruth's life as shaped by her strong-willed mistress and other larger-than-life personalities she encounters in the South. At...
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English
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1859. When war ignites the nation, Georgeanne "Georgey" Woolsey follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women a bother on the battlefront. She and her sister Eliza venture from New York to Gettysburg and witness the unparalleled horrors of slavery as they become involved in the war effort. In the South, Jemma is enslaved on the Peeler Plantation in Maryland; her sister, Patience, is enslaved on the plantation next door....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An historical and imaginative tour-de-force, WAKE brings to light for the first time the existence of enslaved black women warriors, whose stories can be traced by carefully scrutinizing historical records; and where the historical record goes silent, WAKE reconstructs the likely past of two female rebels, Adono and Alele, on the slave ship The Unity. WAKE is a graphic novel that offers invaluable insight into the struggle to survive whole as a black...
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English
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In 985 A.D. the life of a Viking thrall in newly settled Greenland is harsh and unforgiving. Katla, a proud, beautiful slave girl, is ostracized because of her arrogant ways and the mystical rosary beads she wears. She survives a violent rape only through the compassion of Thorbjorg, a pagan seeress and shaman. But Katla's daughter--conceived during the rape and reared by Torbjorg to be a shaman--maliciously exploits the pagan teachings to exact revenge...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, 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 march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother....
20) Threshold
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
448 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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