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When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.

When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.

"When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him. Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing"--Provided by publisher.

Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space from her loving home in 1970s California to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it.

A narrative history of four generations of slaves and slave owners who lived on early-nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister Charles Colcock Jones's coastal Georgia plantations, covering the years 1805-69.

Explores how President James Polk sought to hide from public knowledge the fact that, while he was president, he was secretly buying as many slaves as his plantation revenues permitted.

During the Civil War, Iris Dunleavy, the wife of a wealthy plantation owner, is tried and convicted of madness after her willful disagreement with him over political issues, and she is sent to Sanibel Asylum on a remote Florida island where she and other prisoners are abused, but after finding love with Ambrose, a former Confederate soldier and fellow inmate, Iris must find a way for them to escape.

Describes the life of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, and the Indigo plantation she began in South Carolina, includes vocabulary words with definitions.