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2017.
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"It is difficult for the modern student to truly understand how America could have supported slavery. This volume, containing primary source first-person accounts, allows readers to learn directly from the people of the time. Through their words, some hateful, others inspiring, students will develop a fuller understanding of this chapter in American history"--Provided by the publisher.
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Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Profiles the lives of eight African-American leaders, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Booker T. Washington, who were instrumental in abolishing slavery or helping former slaves achieve full citizenship.
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Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 4
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Examines the history of slavery, discussing the slave trade, the establishment of the slavery system and its role in the economy of the American South, and abolition and emancipation. Includes a time line, glossary, and resources for further research.
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[2020]
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"The American Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865, deeply divided the United States. Opinions about this war, the deadliest in US history, continue to divide Americans even today. many think they know the whole stroy about this time in the country's history, but there's always more to learn! For example, most Amercians know that the Southen system of slavery played a part in causing the war, but did you know that slavery wasn't only in the South?...
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[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Biographical sketches chronicle the contributions of enslaved and free blacks during the Revolutionary War, including Prince Hall, who organized the first branch of black Freemasons, and Richard Allen, who founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 5
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...