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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Sunflower Sisters is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical figures, are products of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real : As we roamed the neat brick streets of Charleston, past filigreed fences and palmetto trees, the atmosphere so gentle and refined, we never dreamed we'd stumble headlong into hell. Mother, my sister Georgy and I had come from...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother's position as the estate's medicine woman and cherished by the Master's sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world. She'd been promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday, but instead of the idyllic life she imagined with her true love, Essex Henry, Pheby is forced to leave...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Edition
1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
369 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Runaway slave Liz Spocott, wounded during capture by notorious slave trader Patty Cannon, meets an ancient nameless woman in Cannon's prison attic who teaches her "the Code," a cryptic means of communication by which runaways reach freedom, and when she escapes once again, Liz uses the code, as well as visions of the future, to help her on her way north.
Author
Series
A.D volume 2
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Ted Dekker delivers the gripping story of Maviah, a slave who becomes a queen in Arabia, A.D. 33. They call her the Queen of the Outcasts. Maviah, a woman whose fate was sealed on her birth by this world as unwanted, illegitimate, female, and a slave, subject to the whims of all. But then she met a man named Yeshua who opened her eyes. She found strength in his words and peace from the brutal word around her.
6) Kindred
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2004?], ©1979
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether...
Author
Series
Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 16
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
297 p.
Language
English
Description
Margaret Ashworth, head of the Marietta Historical Society, disappeared after sharing an old Civil-War era newspaper clipping about a pouch of gold that went missing. As the Inn Crown try to help Margaret's family figure out where she could be, LuAnn finds clues to the gold's location. Meanwhile, a former student of LuAnn's is in town researching the Castle, a local historical site undergoing renovation. But Ashley' strange behavior makes LuAnn wonder...
8) Harriet
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, the movie tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of Americaѫs greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.