Elementary: Slave Trade, Slavery and Africans in America
Posted by Natalie Bernstein on May 9, 2008
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306.3
MCK
Rebels against slavery: American slave revolts
Story of the men and women, slaves and free blacks, Northerners and Southerners, whites and Native Americans, who rebelled against the system of slavery, often giving up their lives in the process.
Available
Non-Fiction - Elementary
J
306.3
RAP
No more! : stories and songs of slave resistance
Chronicles the experiences of twelve African Americans who struggled to gain dignity and freedom from slavery; includes information on the different forms of slave resistance.
Available
Non-Fiction - Elementary
J
326
HUR
Slavery time when I was chillun
Twelve oral histories of former slaves selected from the more than 2000 interviewed as part of the Slave Narratives of the Library of Congress for the Works Progress Administration in 1936.
Available
Non-Fiction - Elementary
J
326
LES
To be a slave
A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.
Available
Non-Fiction - Elementary
J
326
MYE
Amistad : a long road to freedom
A history of the 1839 uprising of African captives aboard the slave ship Amistad, telling of their three-year imprisonment in the United States and their eventual acquittal by the Supreme Court.
Available
Non-Fiction - Elementary
J
382
HAS
Bound for America : the forced migration of Africans to the New World
Discusses the European enslavement of Africans, including their capture, branding, conditions on slave ships, shipboard mutinies, and arrival in the Americas.
Available
Non-Fiction - Elementary
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382
Has
Bound for America : the forced migration of Africans to the New World
Discusses the European enslavement of Africans, including their capture, branding, conditions on slave ships, shipboard mutinies, and arrival in the Americas.
Available
Non-Fiction - Elementary
J
973
KEN
African-Americans in the thirteen colonies
Presents a brief history of African-Americans and of slavery in seventeenth and eighteenth century America.
Available
Non-Fiction - Elementary
J
973
LIT
Revolutionary citizens : African Americans, 1776-1804
Chronicles the lives of African Americans during the Revolutionary War and the early years of the nation.
Available
Non-Fiction - Elementary
J
973
MEA
Slavery : the struggle for freedom
A history of slavery, looking at the conditions slaves faced in North America, examining slave revolts and other types of resistance, and discussing the end of slavery in the U.S.
Available
Non-Fiction - Elementary
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973.7
MCK
Days of Jubilee : the end of slavery in the United States
Uses slave narratives, letters, diaries, military orders, and other documents to chronicle the various stages leading to the emancipation of slaves in the United States.
Available
Non-Fiction - Elementary
J
973.8
DOU
Escape from slavery : the boyhood of Frederick Douglass in his own words
A shortened autobiography presenting the early life of the slave who became an abolitionist, journalist, and statesman.
Available
Non-Fiction - Elementary
J
975
BIA
The strength of these arms : life in the slave quarters
Describes how slaves were able to preserve some elements of their African heritage despite the often brutal treatment they experienced on Southern plantations.
Available
Non-Fiction - Elementary
J
975.03
MCK
Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters
Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War.
Available
Non-Fiction - Elementary
J
975.5
COL
The paradox of Jamestown, 1585-1700
Discusses the circumstances surrounding English colonization of Virginia and the evolution of slavery in that colony.
Available
Non-Fiction - Elementary
J
975.9
SUL
Slave ship : the story of the Henrietta Marie
Text, illustrations, and accompanying photographs present the story of Henrietta Marie, a slave ship that was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico. The artifacts from the ship are preserved at the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society in Key West, Florida.
Available
Non-Fiction - Elementary
J
B
BAN
What are you figuring now? : a story about Benjamin Banneker
A biography of the Afro-American farmer and self-taught mathematician, astronomer, and surveyor for the new capital city of the United States in 1791, who also calculated a successful almanac notable for its preciseness.
Available
Biography - Elementary
J
B
BURNS
Anthony Burns : the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave
A biography of the slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrested at the instigation of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between abolitionists and those determined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts.
Available
Biography - Elementary
J
B
DAY
Master of mahogany : Tom Day, free Black cabinetmaker
Traces the life and accomplishments of this free black artisan, who created elegant furniture and woodwork during the era of slavery in the South.
Available
Biography - Elementary
J
B
DOU
Escape from slavery : the boyhood of Frederick Douglass in his own words
A shortened autobiography presenting the early life of the slave who became an abolitionist, journalist, and statesman.
Overdue
Biography - Elementary
J
B
EQU
The kidnapped prince : the life of Olaudah Equiano
Equiano relates how he was enslaved in 1755, and how he maintained courage and faith despite the heartbreak of being torn from his family and homeland.
Available
Biography - Elementary
J
B
JACOBS
I was born a slave : the story of Harriet Jacobs
Traces the life of a slave who suffered mistreatment from her master, spent years as a fugitive from slavery in North Carolina, and was eventually released to freedom with her children.
Available
Biography - Elementary
J
B
NEWTON
Amazing grace : the story behind the song
Relates the story of the British slave trader who rejected his calling, became a minister, and wrote the words to the popular hymn "Amazing Grace."
Available
Biography - Elementary
J
FOX
The slave dancer; a novel
Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
Available
Fiction (Chapterbooks) - Elementary
J
LYO
Letters from a slave girl : the story of Harriet Jacobs
A fictionalized version of the life of Harriet Jacobs, told in the form of letters that she might have written during her slavery in North Carolina and as she prepared for escape to the North in 1842.
Available
Fiction (Chapterbooks) - Elementary
J
MCK
Let my people go : Bible stories told by a freeman of color to his daughter, Charlotte, in Charleston, South Carolina, 1806-1816
The daughter of a free black man who worked as a blacksmith in Charleston, South Carolina, in the early 1800s recalls the stories from the Bible that her father shared with her, relating them to the experiences of African Americans.
Available
Fiction (Chapterbooks) - Elementary
J
RIN
Hang a thousand trees with ribbons : the story of Phillis Wheatley
A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important African-American poet.
Available
Fiction (Chapterbooks) - Elementary
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WAI
Seaward born
In 1805, a thirteen-year-old slave and his friend make a dangerous escape from Charleston, S.C. and stowaway to head north toward freedom.
Due 02/18/19
Fiction (Chapterbooks) - Elementary
J
WAL
Second daughter : the story of a slave girl
Aissa, the teen-age fictional sister of Elizabeth Freeman, struggles against a system which declares that she is property and that she is to remain silent.
Available
Fiction (Chapterbooks) - Elementary
J
WYE
Once on this river
While on a trip with her mother from Madagascar to New York in 1760, eleven-year-old Monday learns the horrors of slavery and the truth about her "other" mother.
Available
Fiction (Chapterbooks) - Elementary
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MCG
Molly Bannaky
Relates how Benjamin Banneker's grandmother journeyed from England to Maryland in the late seventeenth century, worked as an indentured servant, began a farm of her own, and married a freed slave.
Available
Picture Book - Elementary