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262) The hammer and the anvil: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the end of slavery in America
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
HarperFlamingo
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A novel on John Brown, the slavery abolitionist, narrated by one of his 20 children. The narrator is his son Owen, who fought at his father's side and he tells the story in a series of letters to a biographer. Owen describes his father as a loving family man and provides insight into Brown's motives for becoming an abolitionist, including business failures.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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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.
269) Black cloud rising
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"By fall of 1863, Union forces had taken control of Tidewater Virginia and established a toehold in eastern North Carolina, including along the Outer Banks. Thousands of freed slaves and runaways flooded the Union lines, but Confederate irregulars still roamed the region. In December, the newly formed African Brigade, a unit of these former slaves led by General Edward Augustus Wild--a one-armed, impassioned abolitionist--set out from Portsmouth to...