Next Stop, Freedom

Next Stop, Freedom PDF Author: Dorothy Hoobler
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Silver Burdett Press
ISBN: 9780382241451
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Emily, a slave girl who longs to read, escapes from slavery with the help of Harriet Tubman.

Next Stop, Freedom

Next Stop, Freedom PDF Author: Dorothy Hoobler
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Silver Burdett Press
ISBN: 9780382241451
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Book Description
Emily, a slave girl who longs to read, escapes from slavery with the help of Harriet Tubman.

Next Stop, Freedom

Next Stop, Freedom PDF Author: Dorothy Hoobler
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780785768852
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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The time is the 1850s, and the place is a Southern plantation. Young Emily works as a house slave, caring for Master's two young boys. Emily dreams about freedom, and one night she finds a path called the Underground Railroad from slavery to freedom. Her

Next Stop, Freedom

Next Stop, Freedom PDF Author: Dorothy Hoobler
Publisher: Silver Burdett Press
ISBN: 9780382243479
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Emily, a slave girl who longs to read, escapes from slavery with the help of Harriet Tubman.

Next Stop, Freedom: The Story of a Slave Girl

Next Stop, Freedom: The Story of a Slave Girl PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780780723856
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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A Picture of Freedom

A Picture of Freedom PDF Author: Pat McKissack
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780545265553
Category : African American girls
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859"--Cover.

Slave Girl

Slave Girl PDF Author: Pat McKissack
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407115160
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In 1859 twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.

Second Daughter

Second Daughter PDF Author: Mildred Pitts Walter
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504027884
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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Set during the American Revolution and based on a true story, Elizabeth Freeman, a young slave, sues for her freedom—and wins Sheffield, Massachusetts. Six-year-old Aissa and her older sister, Elizabeth, work as slaves in the home of their owners—Master and Mistress Anna. Raised by Elizabeth after their mother died, and chafing under the yoke of bondage, Aissa is a natural-born rebel. Elizabeth, nicknamed Bett by her owners, is more accepting of her fate in spite of growing anti-slavery sentiment. She marries Josiah Freeman, a freed black man, and they have a child. Then on July 4, 1776, America achieves her dream of independence from England, and in 1780, Massachusetts drafts its own constitution, establishing a bill of rights. When Mistress Anna, angered by Aissa’s defiance, threatens her with a hot coal shovel, Bett takes the blow instead, and is severely burned. She walks out of the house, vowing never to come back—and takes her owners to court. Second Daughter is both riveting historical fiction and rousing courtroom drama about slavery, justice, courage, and the unconquerable love between two sisters.

The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad PDF Author: Colson Whitehead
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0345804325
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. • The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!

Henry's Freedom Box

Henry's Freedom Box PDF Author: Ellen Levine
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338082655
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist. Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail himself to the North. After an arduous journey in the crate, Henry finally has a birthday -- his first day of freedom.

Almost to Freedom

Almost to Freedom PDF Author: Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books ®
ISBN: 1467737577
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Lindy and her doll Sally are best friends - wherever Lindy goes, Sally stays right by her side. They eat together, sleep together, and even pick cotton together. So, on the night Lindy and her mama run away in search of freedom, Sally goes too. This young girl's rag doll vividly narrates her enslaved family's courageous escape through the Underground Railroad. At once heart-wrenching and uplifting, this story about friendship and the strength of the human spirit will touch the lives of all readers long after the journey has ended.