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English
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The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid, and follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), the author allows herself to go beyond the record...
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Beneath the burning ground volume 1
Language
English
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The Wares are only one of the families that will soon be caught up in the burning issue of slavery with raids from the Border Ruffians out of Missouri and John Brown's small army devoted to ending slavery and helping runaways to escape to the north. To aid and abet a runaway slave is a crime that carries a dear price.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
Young Aminata Diallo is abducted from her West African home in 1745 and sold into slavery in North Carolina; but on a trip to New York City with her master, she escapes in the midst of an anti-British demonstration and helps the British transport hundreds of slaves to freedom in Nova Scotia.
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