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Author
Series
Contributions in Afro-American and African studies volume no. 199
Publisher
Praeger
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
xviii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
242) Remembrance
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Remembrance...It's a rumor, a whisper passed in the fields and veiled behind sheets of laundry. A hidden stop on the underground road to freedom, a safe haven protected by more than secrecy...if you can make it there. Ohio, present day. A refugee struggling to rebuild her life in America after the devastating Haitian earthquake is suddenly inexplicably bound to a mysterious old woman who is not at all what she seems. Haiti, 1791, on the brink of...
246) James: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
252) The good lord bird
Publisher
Showtime Networks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 335 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story is told from the point of view of "Onion," a fictional enslaved boy who becomes a member of Brown's motley family of abolitionist soldiers battling slavery in Kansas, and eventually finds himself in the famous 1859 Army depot raid at Harpers Ferry, an inciting incident of the Civil War. It's a tale of Antebellum America and the ever-changing roles of race, religion and gender in American society.
256) Aferim!
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Romanian
Formats
Description
Set in early nineteenth century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.
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