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Author
Publisher
Knowledge Products
Pub. Date
p1985
Language
English
Description
The 1st work discusses Thoreau's arguments for civil disobedience based on the idea that no law should require blind obedience. The 2nd work compares Garrison's views on abolitionism with other comtemporary movements concerning slavery.
Author
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.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the revolutionary activities of Harriet Tubman, Frances Seward, and Martha Wright--friends and neighbors in Auburn, New York--discussing their vital roles in the Underground Railroad, abolition, and the early women's rights movement.
70) Amazing Grace
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of William Wilberforce, his passion, and perseverance to pass a law ending the slave trade in the late 18th and the people, including his minister, who pushed him to pursue it to the end.
Author
Publisher
Blue Earth Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
The diary of a sixteen-year-old free African American who lived in Massachusettts in 1854 records her schooling, participation in the antislavery movement, and concern for an arrested fugitive slave. Includes sidebars, activities, and a timeline related to this era.
74) The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"What do moral people do when democracy countenances evil? The question, implicit in the idea that people can govern themselves, came to a head in America at the middle of the nineteenth century, in the struggle over slavery. John Brown's answer was violence--violence of a sort some in later generations would call terrorism. Brown was a deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to do whatever was necessary...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"The remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia--the free state directly north of the Mason-Dixon line--helping hundreds of people escape from slavery"--
"Born free in 1821 to two parents who had been enslaved, William Still was drawn to antislavery work from a young age. Hired as a clerk at the Anti-Slavery office in Philadelphia...
Author
Series
Publisher
Amicus
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This book for elementary readers outlines key dates throughout this change maker's life. Full-color photographs and a timeline depict each step in the road to change, from Harriet Tubman's early life in slavery to her work liberating slaves as a famous conductor of the Underground Railroad. A glossary, further resources, and an index are included"--
78) Belle
Author
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate daughter of a British Navy captain and an African slave under the care of her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield, successfully navigates prejudicial eighteenth-century English society and plays a part in the downfall of British slave trade.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The most feared ship in Britain's West Africa Squadron, His Majesty's brig Black Joke was one of a handful of ships tasked with patrolling the western coast of Africa in an effort to end hundreds of years of global slave trading. Sailing after the spectacular fall of Napoleon in France, yet before the rise of Queen Victoria's England, Black Joke was first a slaving vessel itself, and one with a lightning-fast reputation; only a lucky capture in 1827...
Author
Series
Publisher
Altea
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Español
Description
A biography of the nineteenth-century woman who escaped slavery and helped many other slaves get to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Biograf�ia de la esclava que escap�o la esclavitud y arriesg�o su vida para ayudar a otros esclavos a huir hacia la libertad.
