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Maryland

A Novel

A cinematic Reconstruction-era drama of violence and fraught moral reckoning

In Dawson's Fall, a novel based on the lives of Roxana Robinson's great-grandparents, we see America at its most fragile, fraught, and malleable. Set in 1889, in Charleston, South Carolina, Robinson's tale weaves her family's journal entries and letters with a novelist's narrative grace, and spans the life of her tragic hero, Frank Dawson, as he attempts to navigate the country's new political, social, and moral landscape.

Dawson, a man of fierce opinions, came to this country as a young Englishman to fight for the Confederacy in a war he understood as a conflict over states' rights. He later became the editor of the Charleston News and Courier, finding a platform of real influence in the editorial column and emerging as a voice of the New South. With his wife and two children, he tried to lead a life that adhered to his staunch principles: equal rights, rule of law, and nonviolence, unswayed by the caprices of popular opinion. But he couldn't control the political whims of his readers. As he wrangled diligently in his columns with questions of citizenship, equality, justice, and slavery, his newspaper rapidly lost readership, and he was plagued by financial worries. Nor could Dawson control the whims of the heart: his Swiss governess became embroiled in a tense affair with a drunkard doctor, which threatened to stain his family's reputation. In the end, Dawson--a man in many ways representative of the country at this time--was felled by the very violence he vehemently opposed.

Dawson's Fall

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South Carolina

Novel 

Romance blossoms between Ellen Heyward and Yankee major John Arlege during Sherman's March through the Carolinas

From the Ashes of Ruin

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Mississippi

This New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year is "a powerful tale of racial tensions across generations" (People) that explores the depths of women’s relationships—powerful women and marginalized women, healers and survivors. In 1924, Josephine is the proud owner of a thriving farm. As a child, she channeled otherworldly power to free herself from slavery. Now her new neighbor, a white woman named Charlotte, seeks her company, and an uneasy friendship grows between them. But Charlotte has also sought solace in the Ku Klux Klan, a relationship that jeopardizes Josephine’s family. Nearly one hundred years later, Josephine’s descendant, Ava, is a single mother who has just lost her job. She moves in with her white grandmother, Martha, a wealthy but lonely woman who pays Ava to be her companion. But Martha’s behavior soon becomes erratic, then threatening, and Ava must escape before her story and Josephine’s converge. The Revisioners explores the depths of women’s relationships—powerful women and marginalized women, healers and survivors. It is a novel about the bonds between mothers and their children, the dangers that upend those bonds. At its core, The Revisioners ponders generational legacies, the endurance of hope, and the undying promise of freedom. "[A] stunning new novel . . . Sexton’s writing is clear and uncluttered, the dialogue authentic, with all the cadences of real speech . . . This is a novel about the women, the mothers." ―The New York Times Book Review

The Revisioners

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John Bailey

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California

The Extraordinary True Story of the Slave Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans

It is a spring morning in New Orleans, 1843. In the Spanish Quarter, on a street lined with flophouses and gambling dens, Madame Carl recognizes the face of a German girl who disappeared twenty-five years earlier. But the olive-skinned woman is a slave, with no memory of a white past. And yet her resemblance to her mother is striking, and she bears two telltale birthmarks. Had a defenseless European orphan been illegally enslaved, or was she an imposter? So begins one of the most celebrated and sensational trials of nineteenth-century America. In brilliant novelistic detail, award-winning historian John Bailey uses Miller's dramatic trial to describe the fascinating laws and customs surrounding slavery, immigration, and racial mixing. Did Miller, as her relatives sought to prove, arrive from Germany under perilous circumstances as an indentured servant or was she, as her master claimed, a slave for life? The trial pits a humble community of German immigrants against a hardened capitalist and one of the most flamboyant lawyers of his time. Bailey follows the case's incredible twists and turns all the way to the Supreme Court and comes to a shocking conclusion in this investigative history that reads like a suspense novel.

The Lost German Slave Girl

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Susan Rivers

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE “Taut, almost unbearable suspense . . . This galvanizing historical portrait of courage, determination, and abiding love mesmerizes and shocks.” —Booklist (starred review) “All I had known for certain when I came around the hen house that first evening in July and saw my husband trudging into the yard after lifetimes spent away from us, a borrowed bag in his hand and the shadow of grief on his face, was that he had to be protected at all costs from knowing what had happened in his absence. I did not believe he could survive it.” When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called to the front lines of the Civil War, his new bride is left to care for her husband’s three-hundred-acre farm and infant son. Placidia, a mere teenager herself living far from her family and completely unprepared to run a farm or raise a child, must endure the darkest days of the war on her own. By the time Major Hockaday returns two years later, Placidia is bound for jail, accused of having borne a child in his absence and murdering it. What really transpired in the two years he was away? Inspired by a true incident, this saga conjures the era with uncanny immediacy. Amid the desperation of wartime, Placidia sees the social order of her Southern homeland unravel as her views on race and family are transformed. A love story, a story of racial divide, and a story of the South as it fell in the war, The Second Mrs. Hockaday reveals how that generation--and the next--began to see their world anew.

The Second Mrs. Hockaday

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New Jersey

The Life of a Confederate General's Black Daughter

When Carrie Allen McCray was a child, she was afraid to ask about the framed photograph of a white man on her mother's dresser. Years later she learned that he was her grandfather, a Confederate general, and that her grandmother was a former slave. In her late seventies, Carrie McCray went searching for her history and found the remarkable story of her mother, Mary, the illegitimate daughter of General J. R. Jones, of Lynchburg, Virginia. Jones would later be cast out of Lynchburg society for publicly recognizing his daughter. FREEDOM'S CHILD is a loving remembrance of how Mary spent her life beating down the kind of thinking that ostracized her father. She was a leader in the founding of the NAACP and hosted the likes of Langston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois as they plotted the war against discrimination at her kitchen table. Carrie McCray's memories reward us with an extraordinarily vivid and intimate portrait of a remarkable woman. "Highly recommended for all readers."--Library Journal, hot pick; "I defy anyone to finish FREEDOM'S CHILD without a tear in their eye, a sense of meeting a great spirit, and an inspiration to act with generosity and justice."--Gloria Steinem; A BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB and QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOK CLUB SELECTION.

Freedom's Child

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Oregon

"In Sweet Haven, down by Bayou Lafourche, "Uncle" Blake promises young Chad he'll never run for freedom without taking Chad along - but now it's 1862, and Blake has gone - gone to scout for the Union army, gone to the bloodbath battle of Port Hudson, gone without Chad." "And Chad at seventeen takes his chance and goes heading for New Orleans, where General Butler is finally allowing the formation of the Louisiana Native Guard. For Chad is on the run to find the war, to fight, to cut the South in two, to find the way into freedom. He will find the carnage of the battle at Milliken's Bend." "Anna, the young slave woman who loves Chad, and has followed him out of slavery to shelter in a New Orleans convent, finds in the Union occupation a brutality that, unknown to Chad, sends her back to the cane fields of Sweet Haven." "The Walk Into Morning will change the way you see the Civil War and introduces characters who will remain in your heart long after the book is closed. It is a stunning work of the imagination."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Walk into Morning

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James Weldon Johnson

Ex-library copy includes: Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington; The Souls Of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois; The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson 

UP FROM SLAVERY The autobiography of Booker T Washington is a startling portrait ofone of the great Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The illegitimate son of 'a white man and a Negro slave, Washington, a man who struggled for his education, would go on to struggle for the dignity of all his people in a hostile and alien society. THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK W.E.B. DuBois's classic is a major sociological document and one of the momentous books in the mosaic of American literature. No other work has had greater influence on black thinking, and nowhere is the African-American's unique heritage and his kinship with all men so passionately described. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN Originally published anonymously, James Weldon Johnson's penetrating work is a remarkable human account of the life of black Americans in the early twentieth century and a profound interpretation of his feelings towards the white man and towards members of his own race. No other book touches with such understanding and objectivity on the phenomenon once called "passing" in a white society. These three narratives, gathered together in Three Negro Classics chronicle the remarkable evolution of African-American consciousness on both a personal and social level. Profound, intelligent, and insightful, they are as relevant today as they have ever been. The Autobiography of Booker T. Washington is a startling portrait of one of the great Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The illegitimate son of a white man and a Negro slave, Washington, a man who struggled for his education, would go on to struggle for the dignity of all his people in a hostile and alien society.W.E.B. DuBois's classic is a major sociological document and one of the momentous books in the mosaic of American literature. No other work has had greater influence on black thinking, and nowhere is the African-American's unique heritage and his kinship with all men so passionately described.Originally published anonymously, James Weldon Johnson's penetrating work is a remarkable human accout of the life of black Americans in the early twentieth century and a profound interpretation of his feelings towards the w3hite man and towards members of his own race. No other book touches with such understanding and objectivity on the phenomenon once called "passing" in a white society.These three narratives, gathered together in Three Negro Classics, chronicle the remarkable evolution of African-American consciousness on both a personal and social level. Profound, intelligent, and insightful, they are as relevant today as they have ever been.

Three Negro Classics

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Solomon Northup

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Original Edition

In 1841, free-born African American Solomon Northup was offered a job in his hometown of Saratoga Springs, New York. He followed his employers to the job site at Washington, D.C., where he was beaten, drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery, eventually ending up on a plantation in Louisiana owned by Edwin Epps. While there, in 1852, Northup befriended Canadian carpenter Samuel Bass, who was at the time doing work for Epps. Secretly, Bass was able to contact Northup's family, who informed New York governor Washington Hunt of his kidnapping. The state was able to use a law passed in 1840 that allowed the recovery of free black men who were sold into slavery to rescue Northup. Solomon was finally made free again on January 4, 1853. One of few slaves of his era ever to regain freedom, he devoted his time and energy to lecturing and educating others about abolitionism. His memoir of the experience, Twelve Years a Slave, was published in 1853, during his first year back as a free man. Twelve Years a Slave, a best-seller in its time, became a major motion picture with an all-star cast in October 2013, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup, Brad Pitt as Samuel Bass, and Michael Fassbender as Edwin Epps. Cosimo Classics is now presenting a paperback and hard cover jacketed republication of the original edition. SOLOMON NORTHUP (1808-c. 1875) was a free African American from New York who was deceived, drugged, and sold into slavery in Washington, D.C. in 1841. He was transported to New Orleans and sold to a plantation owner in Louisiana. For several years, he was passed around between slave owners before winding up with plantation owner Edwin Epps. There he met Canadian carpenter Samuel Bass, who helped him regain his freedom in 1853. Solomon spent the rest of his life as an abolitionist. He also assisted with the Underground Railroad in the early 1860s.

Twelve Years a Slave

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Autobiography of a Female Slave

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The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

An analysis of Abraham Lincoln's political talents identifies the character strengths and abilities that enabled his successful election, in an account that also describes how he used the same abilities to rally former opponents in winning the Civil War.

Team of Rivals

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Michael Price Nelson

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Pennsylvania

Based on Characters & Events from the People V. Armstrong

In this touching debut novel, a grownup Truman "Scrump" Armstrong recalls the childhood incident that led to his fateful involvement in one of attorney Abraham Lincoln's most celebrated criminal trials. In 1857, at the age of nine, Scrump's idyllic boyhood ends the day he discovers a lynched black man on his father's farm. In the wake of this, Scrump's father, Jack, offers his barn as a station house along the Underground Railroad, and no one suspects. Then, in a seemingly unrelated event, Scrump's older brother, Duff, is ensnared in a murder charge and everything is at stake. . Told through the eyes of Scrump, The Lincoln Moon offers a colorful glimpse of the future president' in a courtroom. Ultimately, this is a story about family, faith, and acts of conscience is troubling times"Finding a moment in a great man's younger life that captures his greatness and brilliance long before he becomes "a great man" and then turning that moment into a compelling and moving story is exactly what Michael Price Nelson has done in his debut novel, The Lincoln Moon."

The Lincoln Moon

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Hillary Clinton

The Road to Freedom 

Tubman left her family in her early 20s to escape to Philadelphia, then a hotbed of abolitionism. There she became the first and only woman, fugitive slave, and black to work as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. So successful was she in spiriting away slaves that the state of Maryland put a $40,000 bounty on her head. Within a year of starting her work, fellow slaves and Northerners began referring to Tubman as "Moses" because of how many people she had freed.

Harriet Tubman

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David W. Blight

Wallace Turnage

John Washington

Utah

Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation

Two slave narratives that document the experiences of runaway slaves who managed to reach the protection of Union forces are accompanied by biographies of both men that reconstruct their childhoods, escape, Civil War service, and successful later lives.

A Slave No More

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Virginia

Written in the 1850s by a runaway slave, THE BONDS- WOMANS NARRATIVE is both an historically important literary event and a gripping autobiographical novel in its own right.When her master is betrothed to a woman who conceals a tragic secret, Hannah Crafts, a young slave on a wealthy North Carolina plantation, runs away in a bid for her freedom up North. Pursued by slave hunters, imprisoned by a mysterious and cruel captor, held by sympathetic strangers, and forced to serve a demanding new mistress, she finally makes her way to freedom in New Jersey. Her compelling story provides a fascinating view of American life in the mid-1800s and the literary conventions of the time. Quite possibly the only novel written by a runaway slave, THE BONDSWOMANS NARRATIVE is a provocative literary landmark and a significant historical event that will captivate a diverse audience.

The Bondwoman's Narrative

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Kansas

The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln

Examines how the sixteenth president transformed himself in the 1830s and 1840s from a backwoods storekeeper into a sophisticated political figure, a process that was seriously thwarted more than once. 15,000 first printing. First serial, The Atlantic Monthly.

Honor's Voice

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Webb B. Garrison

In addition to trivia and facts, the book includes 33 fascinating sidebar articles, and 48 unusual photographs and stories. Thoroughly indexed, this book is a valuable resource for students and researchers. 
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Still in original packaging

Unusual and Often Overlooked Facts about America's Civil War

Provides answers to questions on the personalities, statistics, places, weapons, and events of the Civil War

Civil War Trivia and Fact Book

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Publications International Ltd. Staff

Takes, stories and tidbits about the civil war. Great book for civil war buffs

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Armchair Reader series will entertain and enlighten with little-known anecdotes, untold stories, fascinating facts, and tales of intrigue. The Reader's innovative approach and unique style will capture the imaginations of the Civil War buff and the novice, as well. Discover families that were split in two over the war--even Abraham Lincoln's. Find out which generals rose to the occasion and which failed to live up to expectations. Learn how the technical marvels of the day--land mines, the telegraph, and photography--changed warfare forever.

Armchair Reader Civil War

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Julius Lester

Texas

Rod Brown and Julius Lester bring history to life in this profoundly moving exploration of the slave experience. From the Middle Passage to the auction block, from the whipping post to the fight for freedom, this book presents not just historical facts, but the raw emotions of the people who lived them. Inspired by Rod Brown's vivid paintings, Julius Lester has written a text that places each of us squarely inside the skin of both slave and slaveowner. It will capture the heart of every reader, black or white, young or old. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults An NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies A Booklist Editors' Choice Book

From Slave Ship to Freedom Road

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#preacher #healer #miracles #ghosts #Christian #evangelist #supernatural #slavery #goodvsevil #firstedition  Hardcover first edition book in very good condition.


16-year-old Ronald Earl King, who has been a charismatic evangelist since he was ten years old, is about to preach at a huge revival meeting on the grounds of an old plantation, where, with confusing help from the ghost of a girl he could not heal, he becomes engaged in an epic battle between good and evil.

Days of Little Texas (First Edition)

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#paperback #nonfiction #massmarketpaperback #autobiography #biography #memoir #slavery #blackhistory #booktomovie #blackauthor

New York

A Memoir of Kidnap, Slavery and Liberation

"First published in the United States of America by Derby and Miller, 1853"--T.p. verso.

12 Years a Slave

Phillip Katcher

Awesome book for Civil War buffs, jam packed with great facts, illustrations, maps, photographs and more.

The hardcover reference titles in the Day by Day series examine the evolution of wars in a chronological timeline, from the first skirmish to the last battle and everything in between. These books are a historical companion to each major war in the nineteenth and twentieth century. The fate of soldiers, battalions, armies, can change in the blink of an eye--with this comprehensive book readers can follow the conflicting sides in their strategy, weaponry, and policies.

The Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history, claiming the lives of over 600,000 Americans between 1861 and 1865. The Civil War Day by Day is a chronological, month-by-month approach to the conflict, allowing the reader to see at a glance the key battles on land and at sea; bloody engagements such as the First Bull Run, Antietam, Nashville, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, Cold Harbor and Gettysburg. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of contemporary photographs and illustrations, this book also includes full-color maps of all the major battles and campaigns of the war. Each chapter contains boxes on the weapons that were used by both sides in the war, and the tactics that were employed on the battlefield.

The Civil War Day by Day

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"On a Mississippi morning in 1859, Emily Matthews begs her father to save a slave, Nathan, about to be auctioned away from his family. Judge Matthews is an abolitionist who runs an illegal school for his slaves, hoping to eventually set them free. One, a woman named Ginny, has become Emily's companion and often her conscience - and understands all too well the hazards an educated slave must face. Yet even Ginny could not predict the tangled, tragic string of events set in motion as Nathan's family arrives at the Matthews farm. A young doctor, Charles Slate, tends to injured Nathan and begins to court Emily, finally persuading her to become his wife. But their union is disrupted by a fatal clash and a lie that will tear two families apart. As Civil War erupts, Emily, Ginny, and Emily's stoic mother-in-law, Adeline, each face devastating losses. Emily - sheltered all her life - is especially unprepared for the hardships to come. Struggling to survive in this raw, shifting new world, Emily will discover untapped inner strength, an unlikely love, and the courage to confront deep, painful truths."--Publisher description.

Abolitionists Daughter The

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Michigan

The text is that of the 1861 first edition. Contexts includes contemporary responses to Incidents, selections from Jacobs's other published writings, and extracts from her correspondence. Criticism includes eleven important assessments of the narrative, contributed by Jean Fagan Yellin, Ann Taves, Valerie Smith, Nellie Y. McKay, Harryette Mullen, Michelle Burnham, Nell Irvin Painter, Frances Smith Foster, Sandra Gunning, Elizabeth V. Spelman, and Christine Accomando. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.

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Roxana Robinson

Dawson's Fall

Miriam F. Rawl

From the Ashes of Ruin

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

The Revisioners

John Bailey

The Lost German Slave Girl

Susan Rivers

The Second Mrs. Hockaday

Carrie Allen McCray

Freedom's Child

Mildred Barger Herschler

The Walk into Morning

James Weldon Johnson

Three Negro Classics

Solomon Northup

Twelve Years a Slave

Martha Griffith Browne

Autobiography of a Female Slave

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Team of Rivals

Michael Price Nelson

The Lincoln Moon

Catherine Clinton

Harriet Tubman

David W. Blight; Wallace Turnage; John Washington

A Slave No More

Hannah Crafts; Henry Louis Gates (Editor)

The Bondwoman's Narrative

Douglas Lawson Wilson

Honor's Voice

Webb B. Garrison

Civil War Trivia and Fact Book

Publications International Ltd. Staff

Armchair Reader Civil War

Julius Lester

From Slave Ship to Freedom Road

R. A. Nelson

Days of Little Texas (First Edition)

Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave

Phillip Katcher

The Civil War Day by Day

Phail D. Mc

Abolitionists Daughter The

Harriet Jacobs; Frances Smith Foster; Nellie Y. McKay

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl