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Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
30 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the document which led eventually to the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment and relates the role of President Lincoln in freeing the slaves.
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, map ; 23 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes an incident in the life of John Parker, an ex-slave who became a successful businessman in Ripley, Ohio, and who repeatedly risked his life to help other slaves escape to freedom.
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Thirteenth Amendment is one of the most important acts in the legal history of the United States. It is often said that the amendment abolished slavery. But its legacy is more complicated than that. The Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery except as a form of punishment. Southerners seized on this loophole. They unjustly arrested thousands of Black people. Black convicts were forced to do hard, unpaid labor. In this way, slavery was reconstructed...
10) Slavery
Author
Series
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"'To be a slave. To be owned by another person, as a car, a house, or table is owned. To live as a piece of property that could be sold - a child sold from his mother, a wife from her husband. To be considered not human, but a thing that plowed the fields, cut the wood, cooked the food, nursed another's child, a thing whose sole function was determined by the one who owned you. To be a slave. To know that despite the suffering and deprivation, that...
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