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1) Copper sun
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
2) Apalachee
Author
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Spanish missionaries have settled in the Apalachee homeland on the Florida panhandle, introducing new diseases to the native population and attempting to convert them to Christianity. Despite these changes, the Apalachees maintain an uneasy coexistence with the friars.
Everything changes when English soldiers and their Indian allies from the colony of Carolina invade Spanish Florida. After being driven from her Apalachee homeland by the English,...
6) Fort Mose: and the Story of the Man who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Follows the history of slavery from West Africa to America, recounts what daily life was like, and describes the founding of the Spanish colonies.