slavery

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slavery

Twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a freeman

embracing a correspondence of several years, while President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West
2012
Relates details of the life of Austin Steward who started out his life as a slave and eventually became a freeman.

Kindred

Dana, a black woman, celebrates her birthday in 1976 only to be snatched from her home and transported to the antebellum South to save the white son of a plantation owner from drowning.

Breaking free

true stories of girls who escaped modern slavery
Tells the stories of three girls who survived sexual slavery and how they are now working to help others who face the same struggle.

Kindred

When Dana, a woman from the twentieth century, is brought back in time by her slave-owning ancestor, Rufus, when his life is endangered, she must save him in order to live out her own life in the future.

Barracoon

the story of the last "black cargo"
2018
Based on a series of interviews, the author relates the slave narrative of Cudjo Lewis.

Juneteenth for Mazie

Little Mazie wants the freedom to stay up late, but her father explains what freedom really means in the story of Juneteenth, and how her ancestors celebrated their true freedom.

Aquila's drinking gourd

a story of the Underground Railroad
In West Virginia in 1859, an eleven-year-old slave is taken from her mother and sold, dreaming of the Underground Railroad her father taught her about, but never imagining that she will board it so soon.

Juneteenth

celebrating the end of slavery
Explores the roots of the Juneteenth holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States.

Never caught, the story of Ona Judge

George and Martha Washington's courageous slave who dared to run away
A narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave, who risked everything for freedom.

Kindred

2017
A young African-American woman is mysteriously transfered back in time leading to an irresistable curiosity about her family's past.

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