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Holden, Vanessa M.

Summary: "The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner involved an entire community. Vanessa M. Holden rediscovers the women and children, free and enslaved, who lived in Southampton County before, during, and after the revolt. Mapping the region's multilayered human geography, Holden draws a fuller picture of the inhabitants, revealing not only their interactions with physical locations but also...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 HOL

Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E.

Summary: "Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South's slave market. Because women typically...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 JON

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...

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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

Crawford, Alan Pell

Summary: "A groundbreaking, important recovery of history; the overlooked story-fully explored, of the critical aspect of America's Revolutionary War that was fought in the South showing that the British surrender at Yorktown was the direct result of the southern campaign and, that the battles that emerged south of the Mason-Dixon line between loyalists to the Crown and patriots who fought for...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 975 CRA

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