Author: Anne KammaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780439567060
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Invites readers to revisit the past and see what it was like to grow up as a slave in America.
If You Lived When There Was Slavery in America
Author: Anne KammaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780439567060
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Invites readers to revisit the past and see what it was like to grow up as a slave in America.
--If You Lived when There was Slavery in America
Author: Anne KammaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780329359645
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
It is hard to imagine that, once, a person in America could be "owned" by another person. But from the time the colonies were settled in the 1600s until the end of the Civil War in 1865, millions of black people were bought and sold like goods. Where did the slaves come from? Where did they live when they were brought to this country? What kind of work did they do? With compassion and respect for the enslaved, this book answers questions children might have about this era in American history.
If You Lived When There Was Slavery in America
Author: Anne KammaPublisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417648733
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For use in schools and libraries only. Offers readers a look at the life and times of slaves in America from the 1600s through the Civil War by providing answers to basic questions about how slaves were brought here, where they lived when they arrived, and what types of work they were made to do.
If You Lived When Women Won Their Rights
Author: Anne KammaPublisher: Paw Prints
ISBN: 9781439563212
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Answers questions about the rights, role, and fashion of women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in America and the push for women's rights and suffrage that began in 1848.
If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War
Author: Kay MoorePublisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9780590454223
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Describes conditions for the civilians in both North and South during and immediately after the war.
Slavery by Another Name
Author: Douglas A. BlackmonPublisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1848314132
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
Escape from Slavery
Author: Francis BokPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429971010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
In this groundbreaking modern slave narrative, Francis Bok shares his remarkable story with grace, honesty, and a wisdom gained from surviving ten years in captivity. May, 1986: Selling his mother's eggs and peanuts near his village in southern Sudan, seven year old Francis Bok's life was shattered when Arab raiders on horseback, armed with rifles and long knives, burst into the quiet marketplace, murdering men and women and gathering the young children into a group. Strapped to horses and donkeys, Francis and others were taken north, into lives of slavery under wealthy Muslim farmers. For ten years, Francis lived alone in a shed near the goats and cattle that were his responsibility. Fed with scraps from the table, slowly learning bits of an unfamiliar language and religion, the boy had almost no human contact other than his captor's family. After two failed attempts to escape-each bringing severe beatings and death threats-Francis finally escaped at age seventeen, a dramatic breakaway on foot that was his final chance. Yet his slavery did not end there, for even as he made his way toward the capital city of Khartoum, others sought to deprive him of his freedom. Determined to avoid that fate and discover what had happened to his family on that terrible day in 1986, the teenager persevered through prison and refugee camps for three more years, winning the attention of United Nations officials and being granted passage to America. Now a student and an anti-slavery activist, Francis Bok has made it his life mission to combat world slavery. His is the first voice to speak for an estimated twenty seven million people held against their will in nearly every nation, including our own. Escape from Slavery is at once a riveting adventure, a story of desperation and triumph, and a window revealing a world that few have survived to tell.
If You Lived At The Time Of The American Revolution
Author: Kay MoorePublisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545362784
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
If you lived at the time of the American Revolution --What started the American Revolution? --Did everyone take sides? --Would you have seen a battle? Before 1775, thirteen colonies in America belonged to England. This book tells about the fight to be free and independent.
American Slavery as it is
Author: American Anti-Slavery SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Enslaved persons
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Remembering Slavery
Author: Marc FavreauPublisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 1620970449
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed With the publication of the 1619 Project and the national reckoning over racial inequality, the story of slavery has gripped America’s imagination—and conscience—once again. No group of people better understood the power of slavery’s legacies than the last generation of American people who had lived as slaves. Little-known before the first publication of Remembering Slavery over two decades ago, their memories were recorded on paper, and in some cases on primitive recording devices, by WPA workers in the 1930s. A major publishing event, Remembering Slavery captured these extraordinary voices in a single volume for the first time, presenting them as an unprecedented, first-person history of slavery in America. Remembering Slavery received the kind of commercial attention seldom accorded projects of this nature—nationwide reviews as well as extensive coverage on prime-time television, including Good Morning America, Nightline, CBS Sunday Morning, and CNN. Reviewers called the book “chilling . . . [and] riveting” (Publishers Weekly) and “something, truly, truly new” (The Village Voice). With a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar Annette Gordon-Reed, this new edition of Remembering Slavery is an essential text for anyone seeking to understand one of the most basic and essential chapters in our collective history.