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This guide will introduce you to a variety of local, state, and federal resources, as well as information on elections and access to government documents.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
©2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the changing roles, rights, and contributions of Afro-Americans in the United States during the colonial period from 1607 to 1763. Also includes a chronology of significant events.
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Illuminates daily life in slave society in America from colonial times to the end of the Civil War. Provides information on the business and regulation of slavery, the plantation way of life, work, family and community, culture and leisure, health and medicine, religion, resistance and rebellion, and slavery and freedom in the North.
7) Remembering slavery: African Americans talk about their personal experiences of slavery and freedom
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Explains how fugitive slaves escaping from the South to the northern states awakened northerners to the true nature of slavery and how the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act divided the nation and set it on the path to civil war.
10) The trap door
Author
Series
Infinity ring volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dak, Sera, and Riq return to the United States and walk right into a deadly trap. The year is 1850 and the nation is divided over the issue of slavery. In these dark days, the Underground Railroad provides a light of hope, helping runaway slaves escape to freedom. But the SQ has taken control of the Underground Railroad from within. Now Dak and Sera are left wondering who to trust...while Riq risks everything to save the life of a young boy."--P....
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A view of the sixteenth president which focuses on the issue of slavery and the importance it had throughout Lincoln's life from his early days as a lawyer through his presidency.
Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Presents a comprehensive history of slavery, discussing its origins in ancient civilizations, introduction into the United States, elimination following the Civil War, and continuing impact on modern society.
17) Days of slavery
Author
Publisher
Abdo & Daughters
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the origins of the slave trade, the Middle Passage, and plantation life, and offers brief biographies of notable African Americans in various fields during the colonial period and the early nineteenth century,
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Examines what life was like for children who grew up as slaves in the United States, describing the conditions in which they lived, the work they did, how they were educated, and their efforts to obtain freedom.
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