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Author
Publisher
Black Heron Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In 1835, two Salisbury brothers journey to Washington City from Sandy Creek, New York, to promote their town. In Washington, they witness a slave being whipped. Mason Salisbury tries to intervene and is struck across the face with the whip. Mason becomes an ardent abolitionist. In 1861, his son, Moreau, is at seminary when Ft. Sumter is fired upon, beginning the Civil War. Moreau cannot reconcile the commandment, "Thou shalt not kill," with killing,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with...
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. Tubman would make nineteen subsequent trips back south, leading many others to freedom, never being caught, but none as profound as this first one.
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