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61) Caleb's choice
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Pub. Date
c1996
Description
While living in Texas in 1858, fourteen-year-old Caleb faces a dilemma in deciding whether or not to assist fugitive slaves in their run for freedom.
62) River runs deep
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Twelve-year-old Elias is sent to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky to fight a case of consumption and ends up fighting for the lives of a secret community of escaped slaves traveling along the Underground Railroad.
64) The bell rang
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
A slave family is distressed when they discover their son Ben has run away.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
In 1826, Ann Miller travels to Pittsburgh with her widowed father and two young sisters, only to find that a mysterious man has pursued them all the way from Ohio. Is Ann's father hiding something that may endanger them all? Will Hanby indentures with a Pittsburgh saddle maker, only to suffer years of abuse. Ann Miller's compassion lights a long-dark part of his soul. Will his murderous master and her questions keep them both in the shadows forever?...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"In 1827, Duncan Lammons, a disgraced young man from Kentucky, sets out to join the American army in the province of Texas, hoping that here he may live - and - love as he pleases. That same year, Cecelia, a young slave in Virginia, runs away for the first time. Soon infamous for her escape attempts, Cecelia drifts through the reality of slavery until she encounters frontiersman Sam Fisk, who rescues her from a slave auction in New Orleans. In spite...
68) A reckoning
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Description
A Virginia family must come to terms with their slave-owning past as the Civil War approaches and an abolitionist visits their plantation, throwing it into turmoil before compelling the family to move West.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
This edition includes:The 1852 first book edition, accompanied by a preface, note on the text, and explanatory annotations.Twenty-two illustrations and historical documents on slavery and abolitionism are included, as are seventeen critical reviews spanning more than 160 years.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Born the daughter of an enslaved woman and a Louisiana plantation owner, Jeannette Bébinn is raised alongside her white half sister--until her father suddenly dies. His vindictive wife refuses twelve-year-old Jeannette her inheritance and sells her into slavery. Now on her own, Jeannette must fight the injustices she faces because of her mixed race. She escapes enslavement and travels from Mississippi to Philadelphia to New York to Ohio, all while...
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Description
When her master is betrothed to a woman who conceals a tragic secret, Hannah Crafts, a young slave on a wealthy North Carolina plantation, runs away in a bid for her freedom up North. Pursued by slave hunters, imprisoned by a mysterious and cruel captor, held by sympathetic strangers, and forced to serve a demanding new mistress, she finally makes her way to freedom in New Jersey. An unprecedented historical and literary event, this tale written in...
77) Frontier freedom
Author
Series
Rocky mountain saint volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Tatum Saint and his father shared a dream of the Rocky Mountains, but when his father was killed, young Tatum decided to make that dream a reality. But wherever he goes, there's always somebody needing help. Now as he prepares to build a cabin in the wilderness, he stumbles across a couple of runaway slaves that were seeking freedom in the uncharted territory. After their camp is destroyed and brother and sister are injured when Tatum stampedes a...
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