Hurmence, Belinda

A pampered young black girl who has been mysteriously transported back to the days of slavery, struggles to escape her bondage.

A pampered young black girl who has been mysteriously transported back to the days of slavery, struggles to escape her bondage.

Eleven-year-old Tiffany, youngest member of a poor family in rural North Carolina, takes her first steps toward adulthood.

Twelve-year-old Savannah wonders if her little brother Poco, who sleepwalks, is setting the mysterious fires that are leveling the fishermen's shacks on Shackleford Bank near their island home off the North Carolina coast.

In 1908 thirteen-year-old Dixie's new life on the Oklahoma frontier is complicated by a war of nerves between her and John Three, a young Kiowa Indian who insists that his pony was sold to her without his permission.

A firsthand account of the last years of slavery and first years of freedom for slaves.

Twelve oral histories of former slaves selected from the more than 2000 interviewed as part of the Slave Narratives of the Library of Congress for the Works Progress Administration in 1936.

At the end of the Civil War, a young house slave on a small North Carolina plantation searches for her mother who was mysteriously sold when Tancy was a baby.

A firsthand account of the last years of slavery and first years of freedom for slaves from South Carolina.

Presents 21 first-person accounts of slave narratives from North Carolina.