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Black Heroes of the American Revolution

Burke Davis

An account of the black soldiers, sailors, spies, scouts, guides, and wagoners who participated and sacrificed in the struggle for American independence.

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A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

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Amos Fortune, Free Man

Elizabeth Yates

The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty

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FOR

Heaven

Angela Johnson

Fourteen-year-old Marley's seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted when she discovers that her father and mother are not her real parents.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The Rise and Fall of American Slavery

Tim McNeese

Examines the history of slavery, discussing the slave trade, the establishment of the slavery system and its role in the economy of the American South, and abolition and emancipation.

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Frederick Douglass

William S. McFeely

Explores the life of Frederick Douglass as he achieves stature as a leader in the struggle to transcend the limitations of bondage and race.

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The Fifteenth Amendment

Susan Banfield

Examines the Amendment which gave African-American men the right to vote and discusses the struggle that took place to regain this right when it was denied.

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BAN

Frederick Douglass

Peter Burchard

A biography of the runaway slave who became an abolitionist, a crusader for women's rights, and an advisor to Abraham Lincoln.

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Black Indian Slave Narratives

Presents a collection of twenty-seven interviews from former slaves collected during the 1930s that give personal testimonies of the African-American and Native American relationships in the nineteent

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