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Weatherford, Carole Boston

Summary: A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WEA

Cheuse, Alan.

Summary: When his father sends him to his uncle's South Carolina plantation, New York Jew Nathaniel Pereira has his first brush with the realities of slavery and becomes captivated by a beautiful slave.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHE

Kent, Alexander.

Summary: Filled with high-seas intrigue and sharp tensions, this nautical novel takes an intense voyage into the heart of Napoleonic-era Africa. The year is 1819 and Captain Adam Bolitho has been sent on an urgent but risky mission to make a fast passage from Plymouth to Freetown, West Africa, with secret orders for the senior officer stationed there. Due to the slave trade being declared illegal, ships...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEN

McMann, Lisa.

Summary: "Dak, Sera, and Riq return to the United States and walk right into a deadly trap. The year is 1850 and the nation is divided over the issue of slavery. In these dark days, the Underground Railroad provides a light of hope, helping runaway slaves escape to freedom. But the SQ has taken control of the Underground Railroad from within. Now Dak and Sera are left wondering who to trust...while Riq...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2013

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC INF

Ejiofor, Chiwetel

Summary: Tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was abducted in Washington, D.C., and forced to spend the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2014

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 12 Y

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWE

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TWE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWE RATED R

Summary: Underground tells the story of American heroes and their harrowing journey from slavery to freedom, with the legendary Harriot Tubman blazing the trail.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD UND

Summary: Underground tells the story of American heroes and their harrowing journey from slavery to freedom, with the legendary Harriot Tubman blazing the trail.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UND

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Summary: "Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her--but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he's ever known. So begins an unexpected journey that takes...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2019

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COA

Asim, Jabari

Summary: They call themselves the Stolen. Their owners call them captives. They are taught their captors' tongues and their beliefs but they have a language and rituals all their own. In a world that would be allegorical if it weren't saturated in harsh truths, Cato and William meet at Placid Hall, a plantation in an unspecified part of the American South. Subject to the whims of their tyrannical and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASI

Thomas, Kai

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: "Young Lensinda Martin is a protegee of a crusading Black journalist and activist in mid-18th century southwestern Ontario, finding a home in a community founded by veterans of the War of 1812 and refugees from the slave-owning states of the American south--whose agents do not always stay on their side of the border. One night, a neighbouring farmer summons Lensinda after a slave hunter is shot...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Canada 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Gamble, Terry

Summary: The Givens family arrives in America in 1819. As the years pass, this family, initially indifferent to slavery, will actively work for its end-performing courageous, often dangerous, occasionally foolhardy acts of moral rectitude that will reverberate through their lives for generations to come.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GAM

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Summary: Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her, but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he's ever known. So begins an unexpected journey that takes...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COA

Levy, Andrea

Summary: The child of a field slave on the Amity sugar plantation in Jamaica, July lives with her mother until a recently transplanted English widow decides to move her into the great house and rename her. She remains bound to the plantation despite her freedom. The arrival of a young English overseer dramatically changes life in the great house.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEV

Gamble, Terry

Summary: Cheated out of their family estate in Northern Ireland after the Napoleonic Wars, the Givens family arrives in America in 1819. But in coming to this new land, they have lost nearly everything. Making their way west they settle in Cincinnati, a burgeoning town on the banks of the mighty Ohio River whose rise, like the Givenses’ own, will be fashioned by the colliding forces of Jacksonian...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAM

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2019

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COA

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Coates 2019

Lattimore, Ashton

2 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly-and dangerously-collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Group 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LAT

Ruffin, Maurice Carlos

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "When Adebimpe is ten, she is sold with her mother, Sanite, to plantation owner John du Marche. He soon renames her Ady but Sanite never lets her daughter forget who she really is - a person who can read and write and understand numbers. Most importantly, Sanite reminds Ady that she must never reveal these abilities to a white person, especially not her true name. Tasked with maintaining du...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2024

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Kendall, Jane F.

Summary: Although raised on a Southern plantation and owned by a Confederate officer, a Tennessee walking horse helps a slave during the Civil War.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012

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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Kendall 2012

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED HOR

Smith, Katy Simpson

Summary: Set in a small coastal town in North Carolina during the waning years of the American Revolution, this debut novel follows three generations of family--fathers and daughters, mother and son, master and slave, characters who yearn for redemption amidst a heady brew of war, kidnapping, slavery, and love.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMI

Alexander, Kwame

Summary: "A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Alexander

Gyasi, Yaa

Summary: "Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery. Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC GYA

Avi

Summary: After his thievery conviction in 1724, Oliver Cromwell Pitts is sent from England across the Atlantic to America where he is enslaved on a tobacco farm, never giving up on finding his sister, Charity, brought to the colonies on a different ship.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2019

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Avi 2019

Gyasi, Yaa

2 holds on 5 copies

Summary: "Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2016

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GYA

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GYA

Parry, Owen.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PAR

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