Gregory A. Freeman
Gregory A. Freeman is the author of Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves. An award-winning journalist with twenty years' experience, he lives in Atlanta, Georgia. [... more]
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Kate Clifford Larson
Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history-a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. And yet in the nine decades since her death, next to ... [... more]
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Jeanette Winter
Illus. in full color. "Winter's story begins with a peg-leg sailor who aids slaves on their escape on the Underground Railroad. While working for plantation owners, Peg Leg Joe teaches the slaves a song about the drinking gourd (the Big Dipper). ... [... more]
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Forrest Carter
The white man had burned their land, raped their women, and slaughtered their children. He had made them a nation of slaves, and those he could not enslave, he promised to destroy. The Apache had one hope: vengeance. Out of the scattered remnants ... [... more]
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Bryan Prince
Prior to abolition in 1865, as many as 40,000 men, women, and children made the perilous trip north to freedom in Canada with the help of the Underground Railroad... click for more> is a descendent of slaves who came to Canada prior to the ... [... more]
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Edward Ball
Edward Ball was born in Savannah, Georgia, graduated from Brown University, and was a columnist for The Village Voice. This is his first book. Slaves in the Family "EVERYONE SHOULD READ AND LEARN FROM THIS LUMINOUS BOOK...Like Alex Haley's Roots, ... [... more]
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Tananarive Due
Tananarive Due is a former features writer and columnist for the Miami Herald. She has written two highly acclaimed novels: The Between and My Soul to Keep. Ms. Due makes her home in Longview, Washington. Born to former slaves on a Louisiana ... [... more]
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Christian Cameron
Inspired by a little-known historical fact-that American slaves fought alongside the British in the Revolutionary War-this epic novel tells of a Mount Vernon slave who joins a Loyalist black regiment charged with defeating his former master on ... [... more]
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Shadi Bartsch
Martial, the father of the epigram, was one of the brilliant provincial poets who made their literary mark on first-century Rome. His can be affectionate or cruel, elegiac or playful; they target every element of Roman society, from slaves to ... [... more]
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Moises Naim
Pick up a newspaper anywhere, any day, and you will find news about illegal migrants (and near slaves), drug busts, smuggled weapons, laundered money or counterfeit goods. In the past decade, the global trade in these commodities has ... [... more]
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Mirron Willis
Eleven-year-old Elijah is the first child born into freedom in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves just over the border from Detroit. He's best known in his hometown as the boy who made a memorable impression on Frederick Douglass. But ... [... more]
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James Earl Jones
Newbery Medalist Virginia Hamilton tells 24 stories that kept her ancestors' culture alive during slavery, from spirited animal trickster tales and robust tall tales to spine-chilling tales of the supernatural and moving narratives of slaves in ... [... more]
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