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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Using true accounts of Afraican Americans in the New World, the author puts readers in the shoes of eleven extraordinary individuals, and documents the many forms of slave resistance: subversion, uprisings, escape, poetry, religion, and song.
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Examines the roots of slavery in America and how the issue divided the nation, as well as the start of the Civil War, President Lincoln's views on slavery, and his first step toward ending it forever: the Emancipation Proclamation"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1997,c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A biography of the slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrested at the instigation of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between abolitionists and those determined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
John Horse was a famed chief, warrior, tactician, and diplomat who played a dominant role in Black Seminole affairs for half a century. A political and military leader of mixed Seminole and African heritage, Horse defended his people from the U.S. government, other tribes, and slave hunters by serving as a counselor of fellow Seminole leaders, an agent of the U.S. government, and a captain in the Mexican army.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
President George Washington and his wife enslaved more than 150 people in the mid-1700s. In 1796, one of their slaves escaped. Her name was Oney Judge. Oney Judge: Escape from Slavery and the President's House explores her story and her legacy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The 1619 Project’s lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the United States, thoughtfully rendered by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and Newbery honor-winning author Ren�e Watson. A young student receives a family tree assignment in school, but she can only trace back three generations. Grandma gathers the whole family, and the student learns that 400...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
What have I to fear? My master broke every promise to me. I lost my beloved wife and our dear children. All, sold South. Neither my time nor my body is mine. The breath of life is all I have to lose. And bondage is suffocating me. Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be known as Box, he “entered the world a slave.” He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next — as property. When he was an adult, his...
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