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[2019] One World
First edition.
403 pages ; 25 cm
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[2019] Random House Audio
Unabridged.
12 audio discs (approximately 14 hr., 15 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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2019 Random House Publishing Group
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Description
"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage -- and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child -- but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation...
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[2016] Doubleday
First edition.
306 pages ; 25 cm
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F WHI
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[2016] Doubleday
First edition.
306 pages ; 25 cm
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[2016] Random House Audio
Unabridged.
9 audio discs (11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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[2016] Findaway World, LLC
Unabridged.
1 audio media player (approximately 11 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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2016 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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[2016] Random House Large Print
First large print edition.
417 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
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Description
"Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse:...
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[2021] G. P. Putnam's Sons
388 pages ; 24 cm
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[2021] Random House Large Print
First large print edition.
530 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
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LF JON
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LF JON
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"A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence"--
Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to each other, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge, a source of intimacy and hope in a world ruled by vicious masters. When...
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[2020] Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC
First edition.
400 pages ; 25 cm
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2020. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Large print edition.
597 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
"Conjure Women is a sweeping story that brings the world of the South before and after the Civil War vividly to life. Spanning eras and generations, it tells of the lives of three unforgettable women: Miss May Belle, a wise healing woman; her precocious and observant daughter Rue, who is reluctant to follow in her mother's footsteps as a midwife; and their master's daughter Varina. The secrets and bonds among these women and their community come to...
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[2016] Counterpoint
406 pages ; 24 cm
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F DEO
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"For a runaway slave in the 1840s south, life on the run can be just as dangerous as life under a sadistic Massa. That's what fifteen-year-old Naomi learns after she escapes the brutal confines of life on an Alabama plantation. Striking out on her own, she must leave behind her beloved Momma and sister Hazel and take refuge in a Georgia brothel run by a freewheeling, gun-toting Jewish madam named Cynthia. There, amidst a revolving door of gamblers,...
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2013. St. Martin's Press
First edition.
pages cm
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Given as a wedding gift the slave half-sister with whom she grew up, Sarah is subsequently rejected by her suspicious husband and returned to her parents' home, setting in motion a series of events that destabilize the once-powerful family.
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
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2016. Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
First edition.
327 pages : map ; 25 cm
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"It is the present-day, and the world is as we know it: smartphones, social networking and Happy Meals. Save for one thing: the Civil War never occurred. A gifted young Black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshall Service. He's got plenty of work. In this version of America, slavery continues in four states called "the Hard Four." On the trail of a runaway known...
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c2003 Amistad
1st ed.
388 p. ; 24 cm.
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p2003, c2003 Harper Audio
Unabridged.
12 sound discs (900 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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From Edward P. Jones comes one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory-winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with unusual discipline....
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1999, c1991 Chartwell Books, Inc
253 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
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Downtown Branch - Adult Non-Fiction
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306.362 EVE
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2013. Riverhead Books
417 pages ; 24 cm
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[2014] Penguin Audio
14 audio discs (approximately 14.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-nineteenth-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.
11) Freeman: a novel
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c2012 Bolden
404 p. ; 23 cm.
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
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F PIT
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"At the end of the Civil War, an escaped slave first returns to his old plantation and then walks across the ravaged South in search of his lost wife"--Provided by the publisher.
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c2012 Beacon Press
xvii, 212 p. ; 24 cm.
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Downtown Branch - Adult Non-Fiction
306.362 DEW
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306.362 DEW
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Chronicles the joint travels of a woman descended from slaves and a man descended from slave-traders as they make their way through twenty-seven states and overseas, reflecting on how slavery has influenced their lives.
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Downtown Branch - Adult Non-Fiction
326.803 ENC V.1
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326.803 ENC V.2
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c2007 Greenwood Press
2 v. (xlviii, 796 p.) : ill. ; 27 cm.
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Downtown Branch - Adult Non-Fiction
326.803 ENC V.1
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326.803 ENC V.1
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326.803 ENC V.2
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c1991 University of South Carolina Press
xiii, 215 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Downtown Branch - Adult Non-Fiction
305.567 COR
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305.567 COR
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[1994], �1950 University of Alabama Press
xxiv, 426 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Downtown Branch - Adult Non-Fiction
976.1004 SEL
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976.1004 SEL
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[1994], �1950 University of Alabama Press
xxiv, 426 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Downtown Branch - Reference
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Since its initial publication in 1950, this book remains the only comprehensive statewide study of the institution of slavery in Alabama. Sellers concentrates on examining the social and economic aspects of how slavery operated in the state.
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c1979 University of North Carolina Press
xv, 221 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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Downtown Branch - Adult Non-Fiction
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326 ESC
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Slavery Remembered is the first major attempt to analyze the slave narratives gathered as part of the Federal Writers' Project. Paul Escott's sensitive examination of each of the nearly 2,400 narratives and his quantitative analysis of the narratives as a whole eloquently present the differing beliefs and experiences of masters and slaves. The book describes slave attitudes and actions; slave-master relationships; the conditions of slave life, including...
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HIST 306.362 MAN
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[2022] Scribner
First Scribner hardcover edition.
xi, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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[2022] Simon & Schuster Audio
Unabridged.
7 audio discs (540 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
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"The 1619 Project illuminated the ways in which every aspect of life in the United States was and is shaped by the existence of slavery. Black Ghost of Empire focuses on emancipation and how this opportunity to make right further codified the racial caste system-instead of obliterating it.To understand why the shadow of slavery still haunts society today, we must not only look at what slavery was, but also the unfinished way it ended. One may think...
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Cavalry Hill Branch - Adult Non-Fiction
326.8097 SIN
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326.8097 SIN
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[2016] Yale University Press
xiv, 768 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Cavalry Hill Branch - Adult Non-Fiction
326.8097 SIN
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326.8097 SIN
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Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in causes ranging from feminism and utopian socialism to anti-imperialism...
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Downtown Branch - Adult Non-Fiction
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2013 Alfred A. Knopf
1st ed.
xix, 353 p. : ill., maps, geneal. tables ; 25 cm.
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2013 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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2013 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Valley Digital Library
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Description
The author of "The Rose of Martinique" presents a history of the interdependence of sugar, slavery and colonial settlement in the New World through the story of the author's ancestors, exploring the myriad connections between sugar cultivation and her family's identity, genealogy and financial stability.
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c2007 Globe Pequot Press
1st ed.
xv, 192 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 23 cm.
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Downtown Branch - Adult Non-Fiction
975.3004 HOL
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975.3004 HOL
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Presents details about the role of blacks in the history of Washington, D.C., including in the creation of such historic sites as the White House and the Lincoln Memorial, and provides information on monuments dedicated to the contributions of African Americans.