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English
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"Perhaps no other moment in history crystallized the fears of slave owners in the South like the August 21-22, 1831, slave insurrection led by Nat Turner in Southampton, Virginia. The Confessions of Nat Turner details Turner's life and the events surrounding that armed revolt, which left more than fifty men, women, and children dead and that culminated in Turner's execution."--Worldcat.org.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 58 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Nat Turner's slave rebellion is a watershed event in America's long and troubled history of slavery and racial conflict. Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property tells the story of that violent confrontation and of the ways that story has been continuously re-told during the years since 1831. It is a film about a critical moment in American history and of the multiple ways in which that moment has since been remembered. Nat Turner was a "troublesome property"...
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Language
English
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"Generations of American history students have grown up believing that slave rebellion was relatively rare, that slaves accepted their lot and became attached to their masters, and that they were ultimately liberated with little or no effort of their own. Centering Black voices and slave narratives, celebrated historian and children's book author, William Loren Katz offers a thoroughly researched look at the lives of enslaved people in the United...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
viii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Creole Affair is the story of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, and the effects of that rebellion on diplomacy, the domestic slave trade, and the definition of slavery itself. Held against their will aboard the Creole--a slave ship on its way from Richmond to New Orleans in 1841--the rebels seized control of the ship and changed course to the Bahamas. Because the Bahamas were subject to British rule of law, the slaves were...
7) Amistad
Publisher
DreamWorks
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (155 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
9) Spartacus
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Restored edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (3 hr., 17 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The epic tale of the bold gladiator slave Spartacus, the woman who believed in his cause, and the power-hungry Roman general who challenged his convictions.
12) The blackbirder
Author
Series
Brethren of the coast volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
336 p. : ill., 1 map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Part graphic novel, part memoir, "Wake" looks at enslaved black women warriors and provides insight into the struggle to survive whole as a black woman in today's America.
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Series
Step into reading volume Step 4, reading paragraphs
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amistad was a ship that carried African people to be sold into slavery. In 1839, the brave Africans on that ship fought back.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 304 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The critically acclaimed author of Sugar explains one of the major shifts in Western history in the past five centuries -- the end of the slave empires. In this timely and readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality and suffering of slavery, but on the resistance of the enslaved themselves -- from sabotage and absconding to full-blown uprisings -- and its impact in overthrowing slavery. He also looks at the whole Atlantic...
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Series
Publisher
Egmont
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
402 p. : 1 map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While performing with a traveling theatre company in the heart of the Caribbean, Cat is lured into a terrible trap, and stranded on a slave plantation. Can Cat trust a crew of unscrupulous pirates to help her on her way?
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