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41) The wedding gift
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
When wealthy plantation owner Cornelius Allen marries off his daughter Clarissa, he presents her with a wedding gift : a young slave woman called Sarah. It just so happens that Sarah is Allen's daughter as well, the product of a long-term sexual relationship with his slave Emmeline. When Clarissa's husband rejects her newborn son as illegitimate and sends Clarissa and Sarah back to the Allens, their return sets in motion a series of events that will...
42) The Union
Author
Series
Union volume 1
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When Saige Wilde, a mixed-race enslaved girl saves her from an assassination attempt, 18-year-old Avi Jore, born to a powerful father and destined to rule, find their paths becoming intertwined in ways they never imagined as their efforts spark a revolution -- and underscore the staggering power of friendship.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Stephen O'Connor joins this company with a profoundly original exploration of the many ways that the institution of slavery warped the human soul, as seen through the story of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. O'Connor's protagonists are rendered via scrupulously researched scenes of their lives in Paris and at Monticello that alternate with a harrowing memoir written by Hemings after Jefferson's death, as well as with dreamlike sequences in which...
Author
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Hired to investigate allegations of a sweat-shop operation in Amsterdam that is enslaving young girls, Knox and tech information expert Grace Chu embark on a rescue mission that is challenged by a crime organization that has seduced local neighborhoods with showy goodwill practices.
47) Legacies
Author
Series
Corean chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Alucius, a young man raised on a Nightsheep ranch, who has hidden his talent for manipulating the magical powers of his world, is captured by Matrial invaders and discovers that his magical talent could be the key to protecting his world.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Born into captivity as a product of the Royal Breeding House, friendless orphan Purity Drake suddenly finds herself on the run with a foreign vagrant from the North after accidentally killing one of her guards. But there's more to Purity than meets the eye--for it soon becomes clear that the kingdom of Jackals' only hope against an ancient evil are this strange little royalist girl and the last, desperate plan of an escaped slave.
Author
Series
Matthew Corbett mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the Carolina settlement of Charles Town in 1703, Matthew Corbett escorts a beautiful woman to a fancy dress ball and becomes involved in the murder investigation of a sixteen-year-old girl who has been stabbed to death on the grounds of a local plantation. The investigation leads him on a journey up the "River of Souls," where dangers both natural and unnatural lurk.
52) Golden poppies
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1894. Jordan Wallace and Sadie Wagner appear to have little in common. Jordan, a middle-aged black teacher, lives in segregated Chicago. Two thousand miles away, Sadie, the white wife of an ambitious German businessman, lives in more tolerant Oakland, California. But years ago, their families intertwined on a plantation in Virginia. There, Jordan's and Sadie's mothers developed a bond stronger than blood, despite the fact that one was enslaved...
53) Remembrance
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Remembrance...It's a rumor, a whisper passed in the fields and veiled behind sheets of laundry. A hidden stop on the underground road to freedom, a safe haven protected by more than secrecy...if you can make it there. Ohio, present day. A refugee struggling to rebuild her life in America after the devastating Haitian earthquake is suddenly inexplicably bound to a mysterious old woman who is not at all what she seems. Haiti, 1791, on the brink of...
Author
Series
Egyptian series (Wilbur A. Smith) volume 6
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Taita, the Pharaoh{u2019}s advisor and hero of Desert God and River God, once again finds himself caught up in a whirlpool of ruthless intrigue that threatens the very foundations of the beloved empire he has pledged his life to protect. Plunged into dangerous and deadly waters more treacherous than the Nile, he must use his intelligence, alchemy, and cunning to protect his Pharaoh and keep safe all he loves.
56) Spidertouch
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When he was a boy, Razvan trained as a translator for the hated Keda, the mute enslavers of his city, Val Kedi ...Now a man, Razvan has etched out a quiet life for himself as an interpreter for the Keda court. He does not enjoy his work, but keeps his head down to protect his son, held hostage in the Keda's mines...Now the city is under siege by a new army...At the same time, a mysterious rebellion force has reached out to Razvan with a plan to utilize...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1864 and Eliza Spooner's husband Will has joined the Kansas volunteers to fight the Confederates, leaving her with their two children and in charge of their home and land. Eliza is confident that he will return home, and she helps pass the months making a special quilt to keep Will warm during his winter months in the army. When the unthinkable happens, she takes in a a woman and child who have been left alone and made vulnerable by the war,...
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Language
English
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Description
Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret. Early 1900s London: Taken from his homeland, twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of the time locked away in the attic of a large house by the sea. The only time Celestine isn't bound by confines of the small space is when he is acting as an unpaid servant to English explorer Sir Richard Babbington, As the years pass, he desperately clings on to memories of...
59) Yellow Crocus
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Moments after Lisbeth is born, she's taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus begins an intense relationship that will shape both of their lives for decades to come. Though Lisbeth leads a life of privilege, she finds nothing but loneliness in the company of her overwhelmed mother and her distant, slave-owning father. As she...
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Language
English
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Description
On the Mississippi River, indentured servant Fanny Beck has been forced to sing for riverboat passengers since she was a girl. As her contract comes to an end, she discovers that the captain has no intention of releasing her. An impulse leads Fanny to a group of enslaved people who are on their own dangerous quest for liberty. When Fanny is presumed drowned, Sloan Kirkpatrick, the riverboat's captain, sets off to find her replacement. His journey...
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