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Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Explores the life of Frederick Douglass, including his childhood in slavery, his escape to freedom, and how he became one of the most famous abolitionists, speakers, and writers in America"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Here is the remarkable true story of how former slave Isabella Baumfree transformed herself into the preacher and orator Sojourner Truth, as told by acclaimed author Ann Turner and award-winning illustrator James Ransome. An iconic figure of the abolitionist and women's rights movements, Sojourner Truth famously spoke out for equal rights roughly one hundred years before the civil rights movement. My Name Is Truth includes a detailed historical note,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books, a division of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Frederick Douglass was a self-educated slave in the South who grew up to become an icon. He was a leader of the abolitionist movement, a celebrated writer, an esteemed speaker, and a social reformer, proving that, as he said, "Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The abolitionist movement existed alongside slavery in the US from the beginning. Learn about the movement's history, prominent abolitionists, and how they used tactics from powerful rhetoric to direct, disruptive action to help end slavery"--
Author
Publisher
Crabtree
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of abolitionist John Brown, the people and events surrounding the raid he led on the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in 1859, and its aftermath.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of the nineteenth-century author famous for the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which denounced slavery and intensified the disagreement between the North and South.
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Co
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Born into slavery, Douglass became an eloquent spokesperson for both black's and women's rights. During and after the Civil War, Douglass became a confidant of presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. Douglass also argued for African Americans to be allowed to join the Union army in the fight for their own freedom.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
244 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of abolitionist John Brown and the raid he led on the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in 1859, exploring his religious fanaticism and belief in "righteous violence, " --and committment to domestic terrorism.
Author
Publisher
Crabtree
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Following the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, which made it a crime to aid in the escape or protection of escaped slaves, Stowe lent her actions and her words to the effort to help slaves and put an end to slavery. She actively aided fugitive slaves and, with the publication of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, focused the nation's consciousness on the inhumanity of slavery.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
vii, 200 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Coretta Scott King Honor winner Bolden sheds light on new research and interpretations of one of America's most influential African Americans. She focuses on Douglass the man rather than the historical icon. In chronicling his shortcomings and the low points in his life as well as his victories, Bolden creates a portrait of this relentless warrior as a speaker, a once-enslaved abolitionist, but most importantly, as a human being.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
138 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When, in 1879, a bust in his likeness was placed at the University of Rochester, Frederick Douglass wrote: "Incidents of this character do much amaze me. It is not, however, the height to which I have risen, but the depth from which I have come that amazes me." This biography tells the story of his ascent from slavery.
Author
Series
Publisher
W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
viii, 182 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of Lucretia Mott, an active leader of the abolitionist and feminist movements, from her humble roots in New England to her days at a New York Quaker boarding school, and through her decades of social service in Philadelphia.
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