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21) The bell rang
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A slave family is distressed when they discover their son Ben has run away.
22) Caleb's choice
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
154 p. ; 22 cm
Language
English
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
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This edition prints the first and only text of Mark Twain's masterpiece ever based on his complete manuscript - including its first 663 pages, half the book, lost for over a hundred years until discovered in 1990 in a Los Angeles attic. Using this newly restored manuscript, the editors have recovered thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation which were misread, "corrected," or simply overlooked by Mark Twain's "typewriter copyist"...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
357 pages : black and white illustration ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly--and dangerously--collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she's locked away playing...
Author
Series
Matthew Corbett mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
257 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The year is 1703. The place: the Carolina settlement of Charles Town. Matthew Corbett, professional "problem solver," has accepted a lucrative, if unusual, commission: escorting a beautiful woman to a fancy dress ball. What should be a pleasant assignment takes a darker turn when Matthew becomes involved in a murder investigation. A sixteen-year-old girl has been stabbed to death on the grounds of a local plantation. The suspected killer is a slave...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
431 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Based on the true story of Henry "Box" Brown's amazing escape from slavery, a gripping tale about the lengths to which people will go in seeking freedom brings to light one of the heroes of the Underground Railroad"--
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