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A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important black American poet.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
While most slaves are being freed now that the Civil War has ended, Eulinda's younger brother has been sold after being falsely accused of stealing and her older brother has run away, leaving thirteen-year-old Eulinda alone in a household headed by a cruel mistress and a master who will not acknowledge that Eulinda is his daughter.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Harriet Hemings, rumored to be the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, one of his black slaves, struggles with the problems facing her--to escape from the velvet cage that is Monticello, or to stay, and thus remain a slave.
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Series
Publisher
First Gulliver Books
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
In South Carolina in 1780, fourteen year old Caroline sees the Revolutionary War take a terrible toll amoung her family and friends and along with a startling revelation about her own background, come to understand to the true nature of war.
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In 1863 Pennsylvania, fourteen-year-old Tacy faces the horrors of the Battle of Gettysburg while trying to stay out of the way of her brother David, who is in charge while their father serves as a doctor in the Union army, and to keep her friend Marvelous, a free Black, safe from rebel soldiers.