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African Americans History To 1863 Sources American prose literature African American authors Autobiography African American authors Clotilda (Ship) Slave trade Africa History 19th century Slave trade United States History 19th century Slavery in literature Slaves Caribbean Area Biography Slaves United States Biography Slaves' writings, AmericanDavis, Kenneth C.
Summary: "An examination of American slavery through the true stories of five enslaved people who were considered the property of some of our best-known presidents"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 920 DAVSummary: "An new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to the Reconstruction curated by the Schomburg Center, that makes the case for focusing on the histories of Black people as agents and architects of their own lives and ultimate liberation, with a foreword by Kevin Young. This is the first Penguin Classics anthology published in partnership with the Schomburg Center, a world-renowned...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326.8 UNSHurston, Zora Neale
Summary: In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018