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Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 206
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the evils of slavery to the consciences and hearts of the American people by its moving portrayal of slave experience. Harriet Beecher Stowe shows us in scenes of great dramatic power the human effects of a system in which slaves were property: the break up of families, the struggles for freedom, and the horrors of plantation labour. She brings into fiction the different voices of the emerging American nation; the Southern...
2) 47
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Number Forty-Seven, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom.
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
When a plantation proprietor and former slave--now possessing slaves of his own--dies, his household falls apart in the wake of a slave rebellion and corrupt underpaid patrollers who enable free black people to be sold into slavery.
8) Celine
Author
Series
When hearts dare volume 1
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Trevor, the scion of the Andrews family, steps off of a sternwheeler and into her life, Celine finds herself drawn to this man who exudes sensuality despite her best attempts to remain emotionless in his presence.
10) Bloodroot
Author
Series
China Bayles mystery volume 10
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008, c2001
Language
English
Description
China Bayles returns to her family's Mississippi plantation, where she comes face to face with dangerous family secrets as she discovers that an ancient property deed has suddenly resurfaced.
Author
Series
Carolina cousins volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"In a new series related to his bestselling Shenandoah sisters, Michael Phillips returns to the post-Civil War South in a story of forgiveness, danger and love"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Felicity is spending the summer of 1776 at her family's plantation with her favorite horse Patriot, but times are uncertain with the British soldiers burning farms and stealing animals.
Author
Series
Lights of Lowell volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"When tragedy strikes, Jasmine Houston must uproot her family from the Northern mill town of Lowell and take over her family's Southern plantation. Tensions are high, and the lives of the slaves they've promised to protect hang in the balance"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A story based on the true experiences of a Civil War heroine finds Carrie McGavock witnessing the bloodshed of the Battle of Franklin, falling in love with a wounded man, and dedicating her home as a burial site for fallen soldiers.
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 grows...
Author
Series
Refiner's fire volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Pub
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Kitty, a house slave, always figured it was easiest to do what she'd always done--obey Missy and follow orders. But when word arrives that the Yankees are coming, Kitty is faced with a decision: will she continue to follow the bidding of her owners, or will she embrace this chance for freedom? Never allowed to have ideas of her own, Kitty is overwhelmed by the magnitude of her decision. Yet it is her hope to find the "happy ever after" ending to her...
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