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Slavery

Copper Sun

Sharon M. Draper

Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to

The Quest for Freedom

Stephen Currie

Presents a history of the abolitionist movement in America between 1830 and 1865, and describes the efforts by many including the Quakers, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and other to orga

The Thirteenth Amendment

Elizabeth Schleichert

Presents an overview of the history of slavery in the United States, its abolition by constitutional amendment in 1865, and the Reconstruction and its aftermath.

Jubilee

Margaret Walker

Fact-based novel that chronicles the experiences of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his slave mistress, discussing her life as slave during the Civil War, and as a woman freed by the E

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

The adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.

Anthony Burns

Virginia Hamilton

in memory of Eleanor K.

The Dred Scott Decision

Bonnie L. Lukes

Traces the history of the landmark Supreme Court decision that defined the rights of slaves in the United States.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Slavery

Milton Meltzer

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The Dred Scott Decision

Charles Morrow Wilson

A biography of Dred Scott interwoven with accounts of the many court cases and appeals concerning him and their effect on the antislavery movement.

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