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Slavery

I Lay my stitches down, poems of American Slavery

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Grady
Author's First Name: 
Cynthia
Illustrator's First Name: 
Michele
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Wood
Publisher: 
Eerdmans
Publication Date: 
2012
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In 14 poems the voices of 14 different slaves are heard, describing the hardships of their individual lives and their dreams of freedom. The theme of quilt patterns is carried out in those dreams and in Michele Wood's powerfully living illustrations.

SOLD

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
McCormick
Author's First Name: 
Patricia
Publisher: 
Hyperion
Publication Date: 
2006

Enticed from her Nepali mountain village with promises of a job in a fine house, thirteen-year-old Lakshmi is instead taken to India and sold into prostitution with seemingly no way to escape. The graceful free verse text makes her horrific journey bearable for the reader.

TIME'S MEMORY

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Lester
Author's First Name: 
Julius
Publisher: 
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 
2006

Ekundayo, a spirit of the Dogon people, inhabits the body of a young slave Nathaniel as he attempts to save the souls of the many lost during the Middle Passage and in slavery.

SUGAR CHANGED THE WORLD: A STORY OF MAGIC, SPICE, SLAVERY, FREEDOM, AND SCIENCE

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Aronson and Marina Budhos
Author's First Name: 
Marc
Publisher: 
Clarion
Publication Month: 
November
Publication Date: 
2010

Crisp archival illustrations, photographs, maps, and extensive back matter complement an absorbing, well-woven narrative revealing how humanity’s desire for sugar enriched many, enslaved millions, and ultimately fueled revolutions and a new concept of “freedom”. A thought-provoking history.

DAVE THE POTTER: ARTIST, POET, SLAVE

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Hill
Author's First Name: 
Laban Carrick
Illustrator's First Name: 
Bryan
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Collier
Publisher: 
Little, Brown
Publication Month: 
September
Publication Date: 
2010

Dave, a nineteenth-century slave, made beautiful clay pots, on which he often inscribed poems.  The simple prose and earth-toned watercolor and collage illustrations lovingly evoke his strong hands, his care, his craft, and some hidden secrets for readers to discover.

ELIJAH OF BUXTON

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Curtis
Author's First Name: 
Christopher Paul
Publisher: 
Scholastic
Publication Date: 
2007

Elijah, the first child born in a settlement of former slaves in Canada, finds his uneventful life disrupted when he attempts to locate the corrupt preacher who has stolen funds intended to purchase a family’s freedom.

THE FIREFLY LETTERS: A SUFFRAGETTE'S JOURNEY TO CUBA

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Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Engle
Author's First Name: 
Margarita
Publisher: 
Holt
Publication Date: 
2010

Based on a diary of Swedish feminist Fredrika Bremer, this verse novel movingly portrays the plight of three women from diverse backgrounds struggling to find freedom in the midst of Cuban oppression in 1851.

HENRY'S FREEDOM BOX: A TRUE STORY FROM THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Levine
Author's First Name: 
Ellen
Illustrator's First Name: 
Kadir
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Nelson
Publisher: 
Scholastic
Publication Date: 
2007

Rich with the interplay of light and shadow, dramatic oil paintings enhance the true story of Henry “Box” Brown and his successful attempt to mail himself from slavery in the South to freedom in the North.

CHAINS

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Anderson
Author's First Name: 
Laurie Halse
Publisher: 
Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: 
2008

Sold as a slave to a Tory family in 1776, 13-year-old Isabel, struggling to free herself and her slow-witted younger sister, soon faces daunting choices.

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