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TESTIFY: AMERICANA FROM SLAVERY TO TODAY, AN EXHIBIT OF ART AND ARTIFACTS FROM THE DIANE AND ALAN PAGE COLLECTION
1) Horse
Author
Language
English
Description
"A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, Northup published...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Using original slave auction and plantation estate documents, contrasts the monetary value of a slave with the priceless value of life experiences and dreams that a slave owner could never take away"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After the Duchess of the Lake catches Violet with Ash, the hired companion at the Palace of the Lake, Violet has no choice but to escape the Jewel or face certain death, so along with Ash and her best friend, Raven, Violet runs away from her unbearable life of servitude"--
Author
Series
Shawn O'Brien series volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shawn O'Brien looks for a missing boy in the Abaddon Cannon Foundry who employs men as slaves.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or "Titch," is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor, and abolitionist. He initiates Wash into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky; where...
8) Freewater
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there's no turning back, not with the overseer on their trail. Through tangled vines, secret doorways, and over a sky bridge, the two find a secret community called Freewater, deep in the swamp. In this society created by formerly enslaved...
9) Show way
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
By following the directions in a song, "The Drinking Gourd," taught them by an old sailor named Peg Leg Joe, runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada.
11) Homegoing
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Appears on list
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Description
"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Stymied by her unfinished family tree assignment for school, a young girl seeks Grandma's counsel and learns about her ancestors, the consequences of slavery, and the history of Black resistance in the United States.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In 1838, a group of America's most prominent Catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their mission, the fledgling Georgetown University. Journalist, author, and professor Rachel L. Swarns has broken new ground with her prodigious research into a history that the Catholic Church has edited out of its own narrative. Beginning in the present, when two descendants of a family enslaved by the church reconnect, Swarns follows their ancestors...
14) Rhythm of war
Author
Series
Stormlight archive volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 71
Language
English
Formats
Description
After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an advantage, and the threat of a betrayal by Dalinar's crafty ally Taravangian looms over every strategic move. Now, as new technological discoveries by Navani Kholin's scholars begin to change the face of the war, the enemy prepares a bold and dangerous operation....
15) The last runaway
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Language
English
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Description
Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.
Author
Series
Dragonwatch volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The magical world teeters on the brink of collapse. The Dragon King, Celebrant, has united the dragons into a vengeful army, and only a final artifact stands in the way of them unleashing their fury against humankind. With established allegiances shifting under the strain, Seth and Kendra find themselves in desperate need of new allies. Seth must face his most dangerous quest-the fulfillment of his pledge to the Singing Sisters. With only Calvin...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation...
18) The deep
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Yetu holds the memories for her people -- water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners -- who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one -- the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1864, after her father and brother are sold to another owner, nine-year-old Addy Walker and her mother escape from their cruel life of slavery in North Carolina to freedom in Philadelphia.
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