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Author
Publisher
Blue Earth Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, map ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses everyday life, family roles, cooking methods, most important foods, and celebrations of people on southern plantations before the Civil War. Includes recipes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Language
English
Description
During a visit to her grandfather's plantation in Virginia during the summer of 1775, Felicity's loyalty is torn between her father and Ben, her father's apprentice who needs her help as he runs away to join George Washington's army of Patriots.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
163 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1776, eleven-year-old Felicity suspects that an amateur naturalist visiting her family's Virginia plantation may actually be a British spy mapping Patriot plantations in advance of British raids. Includes historical information about the Revolutionary War.
5) Sugar
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines what life was like for children who grew up as slaves in the United States, describing the conditions in which they lived, the work they did, how they were educated, and their efforts to obtain freedom.
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