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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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This Newbery Award-winning children's classic tells the story of Jessie, a young boy snatched off the docks in New Orleans and thrown aboard a slave ship in a suspenseful and horrifying depiction of survival.
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Series
Language
English
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Winner of the Booker Prize
A historical novel set in the eighteenth century, Sacred Hunger is a stunning, engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed in the British Empire as it entered fully into the slave trade and spread it throughout its colonies. Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son who needs a fortune because he is in love with...
A historical novel set in the eighteenth century, Sacred Hunger is a stunning, engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed in the British Empire as it entered fully into the slave trade and spread it throughout its colonies. Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son who needs a fortune because he is in love with...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In this thrilling novel from a New York Times bestselling author, Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered: a predator known only as the Wolf.
Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues baffled. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes....
Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues baffled. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes....
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"From the author of 1491--the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas--a deeply engaging new history that explores the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning...
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Language
English
Description
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave...
6) Shackles from the deep: tracing the path of a sunken slave ship, a bitter past, and a rich legacy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Presents an investigation into the wreck of the Henrietta Marie and how it reflects the tragic history of slavery in England, West Africa, the Caribbean and America.
Author
Series
California world history library volume 24
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xv, 248 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language
English
Description
"What is the relationship between trafficking and free trade? Is trafficking the perfection or a perversion of free trade? Trafficking occurs thousands of times each day at borders throughout the world, yet we've come to perceive it as something quite extraordinary. How did this happen, and what role does trafficking play in capitalism? To answer these questions, Johan Mathew traces the hidden networks that operated across the Arabian Sea in the nineteenth...
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Language
English
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"When Paloma goes to visit her family in Trinidad, she doesn’t feel that she fits in. But Tante Janet has a story to tell her: An ancient story of warrior queens and talking drums, of treasures and tales that span thousands of years . . . a story that Paloma shares in, because her story, too, starts in Africa. Join Tante and her inquisitive niece as they share the story of how her family came to the Caribbean, through the dark days of colonization...
9) Dark watch
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
10) The survivors of the Clotilda: the lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors-the last documented survivors of any slave ship-whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways"--
11) Middle passage
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
209 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A freed slave escapes his bad debts in New Orleans by stowing away on a slave ship en route to Africa.
Author
Series
Cuatro vientos volume 83
Publisher
Noguer
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
3. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
136 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the European enslavement of Africans, including their capture, branding, conditions on slave ships, shipboard mutinies, and arrival in the Americas.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Irish fiddler Sullivan escapes from prison after being implicated in the loss of Erasmus Kemp's slave ship, only to reencounter his nemesis in a struggle that pits Kemp's desire for wealth against Sullivan's advocacy for the disadvantaged.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
434 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For more than three centuries, slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa to the New World. Here, award-winning historian Rediker creates a detailed history of these vessels and the human drama acted out on their rolling decks. Rediker restores the slave ship to its rightful place alongside the plantation as a formative institution of slavery, as a place where a profound and still haunting history of race, class, and modern...
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