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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
Kokila
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Stymied by her unfinished family tree assignment for school, a young girl seeks Grandma's counsel and learns about her ancestors, the consequences of slavery, and the history of Black resistance in the United States.
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
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 196 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of the sixteenth president which focuses on the issue of slavery and the importance it had throughout Lincoln's life from his early days as a lawyer through his presidency.
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
93 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of a slave who suffered mistreatment from her master, spent years as a fugitive from slavery in North Carolina, and was eventually released to freedom with her children.
Author
Publisher
White Mane Kids
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
viii, 142 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the lives and times of outstanding African Americans who were born as slaves and went on to accomplish great things: Josiah Henson, Frederick Douglass, William and Ellen Craft, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Henry Bibb, Booker T. Washington, Susie King Taylor, Nat Love, Robert Smalls, and Sojourner Truth.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
168 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the practice of slavery throughout the millennia, drawing on historical narratives, personal accounts, and visual sources to cover such examples as the ancient Sumerian practice of selling impoverished children into bondage and the oppression of ninth-century Zanj salt marsh workers.
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