Hill, Lawrence

Someone Knows My Name

Based on a true story, it  tells the story of Aminata, a young girl abducted from her village in Mali in 1755. This captivating story of one woman's remarkable experience spans six decades and three continents and brings to life a crucial chapter in world history.

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Lester, Julius

Day of Tears

When gambling debts and greed enter into the Butler household, Pierce Butler decides to host the biggest slave auction in American history and breaks a promise by selling Emma, his most-valued slave and caretaker of his children--a decision that brings about unthinkable consequences.  Inspired by one of the largest slave auctions in American history.

 

MacColl, Michaela

The Revelation of Lousia May

Fifteen-year-old Louisa Alcott cares for her family while protecting a fugitive slave, coping with a budding romance and solving a puzzling murder.

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Mosley, Water

47 

47 is a young slave boy living under the watchful eye of a brutal slave master. His life seems doomed until he meets a mysterious run-away slave, Tall John. Then 47 finds himself swept up in a struggle for his own liberation.

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Myers, Walter Dean

The Glory Field

Follows a family's 241-year history, from the capture of an African boy in the 1750s through the lives of his descendants, as their dreams and circumstances lead them away from and back to the small plot of land in South Carolina that they call the Glory Field.

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Rinaldi, Ann

The Letter Writer

A young girl who serves as letter writer for her blind stepmother is haunted by her unwitting role in Nat Turner's Rebellion, one of the bloodiest slave uprisings in the history of America.

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