Winner of the Casa de las Americas Award, one of the most important prizes given in the Spanish-speaking world. Perro Viejo (Old Dog) is an old, worn-out black Cuban slave who just wants to die. Taken away from his mother at birth, he...
Slaves
- Author:Cardenas, TeresaSummary:
- Author:Dunbar, Erica ArmstrongSummary:
Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never Caught is the powerful narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave who risked it all to...
- Author:Douglass, FrederickSummary:
Presents the autobiography of Douglass, an American slave, and his journey out of mental and physical bondage.
- Author:Hite, AnnSummary:
A haunting historical novella, Lowcountry Spirit tells the story of three slave girls with mystical powers living on an eerie island off the coast of Georgia. Their lives intertwine when Liza, in possession of a book of conjures for...
- Author:Johnson, Keith Lee.Summary:
Revealing the roots of Johnnie Wise's family tree, the author takes readers to Nigeria where a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl, preparing to marry a much older man, escapes with her young lover on a Dutch slave ship bound for...
- Author:Grissom, KathleenSummary:
À la fin du 18e siècle, en Virginie, un terrible secret plane sur une plantation de tabac. Ayant perdu ses parents irlandais lors de sa traversée de l’Atlantique, la petite Lavinia, âgée de sept ans, se retrouve domestique au domaine du...
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Out of the hundreds of published slave narratives, only a handful exist specific to South Carolina, and most of these are not readily available to modern readers. Edited by Susanna Ashton, this collection restores to print seven slave...
- Author:Meriwether, LouiseSummary:
Fragments of the Ark follows the exploits of runaway slave Peter Mango, his family, and a band of fellow escaped slaves as they commandeer a Confederate gunboat out of Charleston harbor and deliver it to the Union navy. Mango is made...
- Author:Sicard, Louis-PierSummary:
Un mois s’est écoulé depuis la disparition de quelques apprentis du royaume, qui ont été vendus comme esclaves et gladiateurs à la Forteresse rouge. On raconte de cet endroit maudit qu’il se situe en plein coeur de l’océan des Pirates,...
- Author:Beckert, SvenSummary:
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.
- Author:Duncan, Grace R.Summary:
Spin-off of Choices Cyrus and Nadir first met as hungry orphans on Behekam’s streets at twelve years old. They became friends, then partners in the thievery that enabled them to survive, and as they passed their days together, they fell...
- Author:Evaristo, BernardineSummary:
- Author:Bowman, PatrickSummary:
Arrow through the Axes concludes the “Odyssey of a Slave” trilogy that began with the Red Maple–nominated Torn from Troy, retelling Homer’s Odyssey. The slave Alexi, now free of his Greek captors, infiltrates the Greek strongholds of...
- Author:Hill, LawrenceSummary:
Lawrence Hill a transformé une page négligée de l’histoire en un roman brillant et attachant, qui transporte le lecteur d’un village africain à une plantation du sud des États-Unis, d’un refuge sordide en Nouvelle-Écosse à la côte de la...
- Author:Pringle, Laurence P.Summary:
A biography of William Clark's personal slave, who provided invaluable assistance to the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
- Author:Northup ,SolomonSummary:
12 Years a Slave is the harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to contact his family, and fearing for his life if he told the truth,...