Author : Margaret Goff Clark
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 24,11 MB
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780590445696
After spending four years with relatives in the South, a fifteen-year-old girl accepts the idea that slaves are property and is horrified to learn when she returns to the North that her home is a station on the underground railroad.
Author : Virginia Frances Schwartz
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,48 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1443124656
An inspiring tale of fugitive slave who finds freedom in Canada, but still struggles to find a real home. Eleven-year-old Solomon is a fugitive slave on a dangerous journey north to Canada, and to freedom. His young life has seen many losses: his mother was sold in a slave auction when he was a baby; his father escaped from the plantation and hasn't been seen in five years; and now his grandfather, who has been injured during the last leg of their journey to freedom, and is forced to stay behind.Solomon continues with their group leader, but his feelings of loss and isolation haunt him, as he attempts to forge a new home in Canada. It soon becomes apparent that racial prejudices know no borders, and while Solomon works hard and begins to experience some newfound freedoms, he faces discrimination and segregation and lives with the ongoing fear of being caught by slavecatchers and dragged back to the South. With all of these barriers facing him, Solomon must find the strength — the same strength that brought him north, the same strength that gives him hope of finding his father — to persevere and understand the true meaning of freedom.
Author : Quito Keutla
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 16,38 MB
Release : 2017-07-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781548860837
A country overtaken by communism.A couple wanting something better for their children.Over the course of twenty years, 360,000 Laotians would flee their home country. Here is the story of one of those families.
Author : Julia Immonen
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,47 MB
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0718021533
An activists and athlete recounts her inspiring, record-breaking row across the Atlantic to raise awareness in the fight against modern slavery. The Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge is known as The World’s Toughest Row. Very few have completed the three-thousand-mile race from the Canary Islands to Barbados—fewer than those who have climbed Mount Everest or gone into space. But thirty-two-year-old Julia Immonen and four or the women were determined to not only complete the challenge, but to become the fastest all-female team to ever do so. Row for Freedom chronicles that dramatic journey, detailing the grueling, peril-filled crossing that broke two world records. It weaves together Julia’s search for hope and purpose against a background of relationships scarred by violence. As Julia’s physical and emotional treks unfold, you also learn about the plight of the thirty million victims of the modern-day slave trade that serves as the motivation for her row.
Author : Tonya Bolden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 36,21 MB
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1599903199
Award-winning author Tonya Bolden sheds light on an unknown moment of the Civil War to readers in a searing, poetic novel about the dream of freedom.
Author : Tim Tingle
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,13 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Choctaw Indians
ISBN : 9781933693200
When it was first published, Crossing Bok Chitto took readers by surprise. This moving and original story about the intersection of Native and African Americans received starred reviews and many awards, including being named an ALA Notable Children's Book and a Jane Addams Honor Book. Jeanne Rorex Bridges' illustrations mesmerized readers--Publishers Weekly noted that her "strong, solid figures gaze squarely out of the frame, beseeching readers to listen, empathize and wonder." Choctaw storyteller Tim Tingle blends songs, flute, and drum to bring the lore of the Choctaw Nation to life in lively historical, personal, and traditional stories. Artist Jeanne Rorex Bridges traces her heritage back to her Cherokee ancestors.
Author : Tiya Miles
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822338659
Combines histories of the complex interactions between blacks and Natives in North America with examples and readings of art that has emerged from those exchanges.
Author : Tim Tingle
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 25,33 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0938317776
In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.
Author : Elizabeth Wells Bardwell
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0595225985
Crossing to Freedom assembles stirring stories of hundreds of kindred families. One of the lines is traced back to 540 A.D., but most of the spacious chronicle is set in the centuries following 1630, when members of these families began flocking to America’s shores to escape religious persecution in many parts of the Old World.
Author : Peter Downs
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1439676208
The Monuments of a Divided State St. Louis was at the center of several key Civil War events from the Dred Scott decision through the Mississippi Campaign that cut the Confederate States in two. Visit the site from which enslaved people tried to cross the Mississippi River to the free state of Illinois. Discover how hundreds of lawsuits by enslaved people set the stage for the Dred Scott decision that lit the fuse to the Civil War. See the military base that produced over 200 Civil War generals and the arsenal that secessionists and unionists fought to control. Author Peter Downs goes behind the monuments and historic sites to explore the people, relationships and events that influenced the course of civil war in St. Louis and the nation.
