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1) Slavery
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
African slaves were first brought to what is now the United States by British colonists. When the United States became independent, some states continued to have slaves until the end of the Civil War. Find out more in Slavery, a title in the Black History series.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Traces the journey to freedom taken by countless slaves, showing how they were guided, protected and pursued along the way. The extraordinary story is told through historical documents, visits to important sites, interviews with the descendants of noted abolitionists and commentary from experts.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although slavery ended almost 150 years ago, learning about it today helps us understand the racism and prejudice that still exist. We can be inspired by the courage of those who endured slavery and those who fought to end it.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
This book features illustrations, original documents, photographs and first-person narratives to give an account of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Includes a time line (p. 118-119).
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Some studies of early America highlight events such as the first Thanksgiving and the establishment of different colonies. But true historians realize that American history is tightly bound to the history of enslavement in the Americas. This carefully researched volume presents the difficult topic of American slavery sensitively yet comprehensively. Readers will learn about the European slave trade and how and why it expanded to the American colonies....
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than 4 million slaves were set free. By the late 1930's, 100,000 former slaves were still alive. In the midst of the Great Depression, journalists and writers traveled the country to record the memories of the last generation of African-Americans born into bondage. Over 2,000 interviews were transcribed as spoken, in the vernacular of the time, to form a unique historical record.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In Black Elders, Frederick C. Knight explores the experiences of African Americans with aging and in old age during the eras of slavery and emancipation. Though slavery put a premium on young labor, elders worked as caregivers, domestics, cooks, or midwives and performed other tasks in the margins of Southern and Northern economies. Looking at black families, churches, mutual aid societies, and homes for the aged, Knight demonstrates the pivotal...
11) The Civil War
Publisher
PBS Home Video, distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, c1990
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, An Imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-known but extraordinary men in Civil War history George E. Stephens and James Henry Gooding. These Union soldiers not only served in the Massachusetts 54th Infantry, the well-known black regiment, but were also war correspondents who published eyewitness reports of the battlefields. Their dispatches told the truth of their lives at camp, their intense training, and the dangers and tragedies on the...
13) Roots
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's Roots, in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
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