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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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In her sweeping debut, Diane C. McPhail offers a powerful, profoundly emotional novel that explores a little-known aspect of Civil War history--Southern Abolitionists--and the timeless struggle to do right even amidst bitter conflict. On a Mississippi morning in 1859, Emily Matthews begs her father to save a slave, Nathan, about to be auctioned away from his family. Judge Matthews is an abolitionist who runs an illegal school for his slaves, hoping...
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Series
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"What if social transformation and liberation isn't about waiting for someone else to come along and save us? What if ordinary people have the power to collectively free ourselves? In this timely collection of essays and interviews, Mariame Kaba reflects on the deep work of abolition and transformative political struggle." -- page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Secret refuge volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Author
Series
Refiner's fire volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists. Drawing on her life's work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives...
Author
Publisher
Polity
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity. Far from a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, Benjamin argues that automation has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racism of a previous era. Presenting...
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Publisher
SparkPress
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Forbidden by her husband to join any further anti-slavery outings due to her fragile health, Ann Phillips, a passionate advocate of abolition from her earliest years, is determined to help fugitive slave Anthony Burns, who is apprehended in Boston, no matter what it costs her.
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Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This riveting blend of on-the-ground reporting and sweeping social and architectural history discusses the decision to close Rikers Island and what it will really mean for reformists, justice architects, abolitionists, city government officials, prison guards and the incarcerated themselves.
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Introducing a new nonfiction series for the next generation of activists, uncovering the hidden history of The United States through an anti-racist lens. The true story of the menand womensurrounding the founding of America. In the summer of 1776, when Thomas Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia to sign the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men are created equal,
12) Spy of Richmond
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Series
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English
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"Trust none. Risk all. Richmond, Virginia, 1863. Compelled to atone for the sins of her slaveholding father, Union loyalist Sophie Kent risks everything to help end the war from within the Confederate capital and abolish slavery forever. But she can't do it alone. Former slave Bella Jamison sacrifices her freedom to come to Richmond, where her Union soldier husband is imprisoned, and her twin sister still lives in bondage in Sophie's home. Though...
13) Keeping faith
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Victoria Fenway and wagon-train captain Joseph Rickard promised to love each other forever, but a misunderstanding led to her marrying another man. Now determined to carry on her late husband's work of rescuing slaves, she is tracking his murderer. With dangerous slavers tracking her, Joseph becomes her protector, hoping for a second chance"--
14) Susan B. Anthony
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Series
Making of America (Abrams) volume 4
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In the fourth installment in the Making of America series, Susan B. Anthony, Teri Kanefield examines the life of America's famous suffragette. Anthony was born into a world in which men ruled women: A man could beat his wife, take her earnings, have her committed into an asylum based on his word, and take her children away from her. While the young nation was ablaze with the radical notion that people could govern themselves, "people" were understood...
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Publisher
Grupo Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
"La esposa del pastor Calvin Stowe se encuentra destrozada tras la pérdida de su último hijo. Después de una depresión, decide regresar a la iglesia. Mientras el predicador está lanzando su mensaje tiene una visión que le animará a escribir una novela sobre la situación de los esclavos en los Estados Unidos. Harriet Beecher Stowe se lanzará a esta Aventura, tras conocer a un esclavo fugitivo que le contará la increíble historia de un hombre...
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Publisher
Triangle Square Books for Young Readers/Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"What can abolition mean for a child? How can it help them dream a different future for their community? In Abolition is Love, Amelie learns about collective care, mutual aid, and abolitionist ideas as they help their parents get ready for the annual Prisoners’ Justice Day. Amelie explores big concepts like love, justice, and care, and learns how we can build a different world together through the small choices we make every day. They learn to...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A lush and immersive tale of adventure, artistry, romance, and freedom set in eighteenth-century London and inspired by a true story. "I had little right to live, born on a slave ship where my parents both died. But I survived, and indeed, you might say I did more." It's 1746 and Georgian London is not a safe place for a young Black man, especially one who has escaped slavery. After the twinkling lights in the Fleet Street coffee shops are blown...
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Language
English
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"A powerful, engrossing story of a biracial heiress who flees to Paris when the Haitian Revolution burns across her island home. But as she works her way into the inner circle of Robespierre and his mistress, she learns that not even oceans can stop the flames of revolution. Sylvie de Rosiers, the biracial daughter of a rich planter in 1791 Saint-Domingue, is both a lady born to privilege and a damning reminder of her father's infidelity with an enslaved...
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