Ward, Andrew
Summary: The first narrative history of the Civil War as told by the very people it freed. Historian of nineteenth-century and African-American history Andrew Ward weaves together hundreds of interviews, diaries, letters, and memoirs. Here is the Civil War as seen from slave quarters, kitchens, roadsides, swamps, and fields. Body servants, army cooks and launderers, runaways, teamsters, and gravediggers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.711 WARParker, John P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PARKER, JOHN P PARThomas, William G.
Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 THOWhite, Shane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 WHIKeller, Shana
Summary: "Frederick Douglass knew that learning to read and write would be the first step in his quest for freedom. Told from first-person perspective and using some of Douglass's own words, this biography draws from his experiences as a young boy and his attempts to learn how to read and write."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DOUMiles, Tiya
Summary: "Sitting in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is a rough cotton bag, called "Ashley's Sack," embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love passed down through generations. In 1850s South Carolina, just before nine-year-old Ashley was sold, her mother, Rose, gave her a sack filled with just a few things as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.3 MILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 MILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 MILDunbar, Erica Armstrong
Summary: "A National Book Award Finalist for Non-Fiction, Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave, who risked everything for freedom. Now in a Young Readers Edition"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JUDSummary: Live recordings and dramatic readings of interviews with former slaves. The original recordings were made by interviewers from the Federal Writers' Project in the early 1930s and placed in the Library of Congress. They have now been re-mastered and made available to the American public.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.362 remJarrow, Gail
Summary: "Imagine microscopic worms living in the soil. They enter your body through your bare feet, travel to your intestines, and stay there for years sucking your blood like vampires. You feel exhausted. You get sick easily. It sounds like a nightmare, but that's what happened in the American South during the 1800s and early 1900s. Doctors never guessed that hookworms were making patients ill, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 616.9 JARBurg, Ann E.
Summary: The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BURSummary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326.8 UNSShepard, Ray Anthony
Summary: "An elegant, unforgiving poem narrating Ona Judge's self-emancipation from George Washington's household"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JUDHolden, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 HOLFranklin, John Hope
Summary: Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation, to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. This book offers a portrait of her extended family and of the life of slaves before the Civil War. Based on family letters as well as an autobiography by one of her sons, the detective work follows a singular group as they walk the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.2 FRASummary: This story follows the life of Eliza and her protector Uncle Tom, who are caught in the brutality of slavery in the Southern States during the nineteenth century.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNCMitchell, Jerry
Summary: "An award-winning investigative reporter shares the real-life detective story of how Klansmen came to justice in notorious unsolved civil rights cold cases--decades after they had gotten away with murder"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MITStowe, Harriet Beecher
Summary: Contains three novels on the topics of slavery, romance, and changes in the lifestyles in an old small town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1982
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STOGoodwin, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 DORANTES, ESTEBAN GOOMeacham, Jon
Summary: Jon Meacham chronicles the life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and explores why and how Lincoln confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery in order to expand the possibilities of America. This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination at Ford's Theater on...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LINEmberton, Carole
Summary: "Priscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858. Her life story, which she recounted in an oral history decades later, captures the complexity of emancipation. Based on interviews that Joyner and formerly enslaved people had with the Depression-era Federal Writers Project, historian Carole Emberton draws a portrait of the steps they took in order to feel free, something no legal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOYNER, PRISCILLA EMBDavis, 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