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The Road of Lost Innocence: As a girl she was sold into sexual slavery, but now she rescues others. The true ...
Somaly Mam
Spiegel & Grau, 2008
This woman is amazing
Wow. I want to say there are no words to describe what this book will make you feel, but I'm going to try anyway.
Somaly Mam is the kind of person we all hope we could be, were we faced with the horrors she has lived. Sexual slavery, rape, abuse - she survived all ...
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Patricia McCormick
Hyperion Book CH, 2008
Heartbreaking Reality
My son bought this book for a College Course at Purdue Calumet. The day it came I started reading it, It was a very good read,very heartbreaking that a child lived this way. It took me one night to complete, I had such a hard time trying to put it down. My son had a ...
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Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War
Jacqueline Jones
Knopf, 2008
Pre- and Post-Civil War Georgia
"Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War" is an exhaustive study of the region around and in Savannah before, during and after the Civil War. It is an examination of the culture and the politics of a place, of which the Civil War occupies the shortest time period. ...
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Douglas A. Blackmon
Doubleday, 2008
Very quick delivery!
Every time I order books directly from Amazon it arrives within three days, and I love that.
Thanks Amazon!
Karyn
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves (The ...
M.T. Anderson
Candlewick, 2008
Volume II of the National Book Award Winner and NEW YORK TIMES bestseller ? a stunning resolution to the epic tale that "fascinates, appalls, condemns, and enthralls." Fearing a death sentence, Octavian and his tutor, Dr. Trefusis, escape through rising tides and pouring rain to find shelter in British-occupied Boston. Sundered from all he knows ...
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Beloved
Toni Morrison
Vintage, 2004
Brilliant novel
Beloved is a riveting story, a page-turner. It reminds me of The Turn of the Screw in that you are never certain what was real and what wasn't. Do you believe in the supernatural or is it mental distress? Awesome review of slavery every white American should read. ...
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Dover Thrift Editions)
Harriet Jacobs
Dover Publications, 2001
Compelling Account, Easily Read
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / 0-674-44746-8
It is amusing to note that Jacobs' autobiography was published just prior to Stowe's famous Uncle Tom's Cabin. Stowe's work, for all it's virtues, is (to modern eyes, at least) painfully didactic, frequently ...
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The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave
Kashif Malik Hassan-El
Frontline Distribution International, 1999
A Must Read
This book should bread by every young black male in the United States. Some have proclaimed that it is false but the information is essential to the growth of black males. It sheds light on some of the condition that we face in this country.
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Elijah of Buxton
Christopher Paul Curtis
Scholastic Press, 2007
Elijah of Buxton
*Elijah of Buxton* is an exciting historical fiction book about a boy named
Elijah who is the first child born free in Buxton. It is about the Preacher
who doesn't care for anyone in Buxton and who lies about everything. He
tells Elijah that one type of snake is ...
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Henry's Freedom Box (Caldecott Honor Book)
Ellen Levine
Scholastic Press, 2007
Spare story of one man's struggle against slavery
This story documents the slavery and eventual freedom of one man. Henry and his brothers and sisters work for a good master. However, on his deathbed, the master gives Henry to his son, separating Henry from the rest of his family forever. Henry works well in the ...
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The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves
Andrew Ward
Houghton Mifflin, 2008
Compelling, enlightening book on Civil War
Although this book is a hard one to read more than a few chapters at a time, it is worth the effort. I think you need time to let each section sink in and be mentally absorbed before takling the next one. I found it a bit difficult to follow exactly the narrations, as ...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Signet Classics)
Frederick Douglass
Signet Classics, 2005
Essential
"I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death." Frederic Douglass
Frederic Douglass tells us the REAL story about slavery in early America. From the first ...
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Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (Caldecott Honor Book)
Carole Boston Weatherford
Jump At The Sun, 2006
BEAUTIFUL book!
I love the graphics in this book which portray so much emotion! The story of Harriet Tubman is inspiring and amazing and to be coupled with these graphics makes it really come alive for the reader. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who wants an ...
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A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery
E. Benjamin Skinner
Free Press, 2008
Chilling, yet true
Every page of this book is fascinating, and scary.
Perhaps the end is the worst of all. Skinner has a brief epilogue where he points out: "You might wonder what became of the slaves I found in bondage. What happened to the young Romanian woman whose owner ...
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The Known World
Edward P. Jones
Amistad, 2006
Gorgeous
"The Known World" is one of the most beautifully written novels I've read. I savored it as as I do Nabokov or Garcia Marquez. If you appreciate a flawlessly structured narrative written with sublime economy of words; if you delight in reading a good story with deep ...
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