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1. South to freedom: runaway slaves to Mexico and the road to the Civil War

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Author:
Baumgartner, Alice L.
Publisher:
Basic Books
Pub. Date:
©2020
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"The Underground Railroad to the North was salvation for many US slaves before the Civil War. But during the same decades, thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border intoMexico. In South to Freedom historian Alice Baumgartner tells the story of Mexico's rise as an antislavery republic and a promised land for enslaved people in North America. She describes how Mexico's...

2. Go south to freedom

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Author:
Gaillard, Frye, 1946-
Pub. Date:
2016
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English
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More than twenty years ago, Robert Croshon, an elderly friend of Frye Gaillard's, told him the story of Croshon's ancestor, Gilbert Fields, an African-born slave in Georgia who led his family on a daring flight to freedom. Fields and his family ran away intending to travel north, but clouds obscured the stars and when morning came Fields discovered they had been running south instead. They had no choice but to seek sanctuary with the Seminole Indians...

3. Freedom libraries: the untold story of libraries for African Americans in the South

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Author:
Selby, Mike, 1976-
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English
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Although illegal, racial segregation was strictly enforced in a number of American states, and public libraries were not immune. Numerous libraries were desegregated on paper only: there would be no cards given to African Americans, no books for them to read, and no furniture for them to use. It was these exact conditions that helped create Freedom Libraries. Over eighty of these parallel libraries appeared in the Deep South, staffed by civil rights...

4. Closer to freedom: enslaved women and everyday resistance in the plantation South

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Author:
Camp, Stephanie M. H.
Series:
Gender and American culture
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date:
[2004]
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English
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"Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie M.H. Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and, especially, enslaved women. In her investigation of the movement of bodies, objects, and information, she extends our recognition of slave resistance...

5. Roadblocks to Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in the United States South

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Author:
Fede, Andrew
Publisher:
quidpro
Pub. Date:
2014
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English
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This book considers the law of freedom suits and manumission from the point-of-view of legal procedure, evidence rules, damage awards, and trial practice-in addition to the abstract principles stated in the appellate decisions. The author shows that procedural and evidentiary roadblocks made it increasingly impossible for many slaves, or free blacks who were wrongfully held as slaves, to litigate their freedom. Even some of the most celebrated cases...

6. Mandela: long walk to freedom

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2014
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Based on South African President Nelson Mandela's autobiography of the same name, it chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country's once segregated society.

7. Freedom Riders: The History of the Civil Rights Activists Who Rode Buses around the South to Protest

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Author:
Charles River Editors
Publisher:
Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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After a 1960 Supreme Court decision in Boynton v. Virginia, bus segregation was made illegal on new grounds: it violated the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution, by regulating the movement of people across state lines. With this victory in hand, the Freedom Rides of 1961 began. Organized primarily by a new group - the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) - the Freedom Rides followed the same guidance that inspired the Montgomery Boycott and...

8. Before freedom came: African-American life in the antebellum South : to accompany an exhibition organized by the Museum of the Confederacy

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The Museum
Pub. Date:
[1991]
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Essays by noted historians, folklorists, and archaeologists portray the broad contours and details of African American life under slavery, both on the plantation and in Southern cities. Color and black and white images abound

9. Freedom of Thought in the Old South

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Author:
Eaton, Clement
Publisher:
Barakaldo Books
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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Christian scholar Charles Guignebert (1867-1939) lectured extensively on Christian history at the Sorbonne, and conducted a 23 year long "seminar" on the New Testament. In this extensive work, Guignebert illuminates early history of Christianity, through its formation to the dominance of Catholic Church in Europe.

10. Simon Bolivar: South America's freedom fighter

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Calliope volume 24, number 4, January 2014
Pub. Date:
2014
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11. After Mandela: the struggle for freedom in post-apartheid South Africa

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Author:
Foster, Douglas
Publisher:
Liveright Pub. Corporation
Pub. Date:
2012
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English
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12. Freedom's Tears: The History of the Civil War in Charleston, South Carolina, and Port Royal Sound

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Olsvig, Josie
Publisher:
Koehler Books
Pub. Date:
2024
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"Extremely well researched and beautifully written, Josie Olsvig's novel Freedom's Tears will haunt you for years to come."-Kim Poovey, author of Shadows of the Moss and other Southern novels Author Josie Olsvig transports the reader to a tumultuous time in American history, the mid-1800s in Charleston, South Carolina, neighboring Beaufort, and the surrounding Sea Islands. As the story unfolds, White aristocratic planters, determined to protect their...

13. Born a child of freedom, yet a slave: mechanisms of control and strategies of resistance in antebellum South Carolina

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Author:
Jones, Norrece T., 1953-
Publisher:
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date:
[1990]
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English
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14. Minds stayed on freedom: the civil rights struggle in the rural South : an oral history

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Westview Press
Pub. Date:
1991
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15. 2067

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RLJE Films
Pub. Date:
[2020]
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In 2067, humanity is forced to live on artificial oxygen and is slowly dying. Ethan Whyte must travel to the future to a cure and save the world.

16. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Series:
Works of Mark Twain volume 8
Oxford world's classics
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English
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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of...

17. The underground railroad: a novel

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Whitehead, Colson, 1969-
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A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially...

18. Born a crime: stories from a South African childhood

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Author:
Noah, Trevor, 1984-
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Audible Studios on BrillianceAudio
Pub. Date:
2016
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English
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Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from...

19. The adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
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Oxford world's classics
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English
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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a "rich boy." Yet through the novel's humorous escapades-from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe-Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge,...

20. The mermaid chair

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Kidd, Sue Monk
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A transcendent tale of a woman's self-discovery—the New York Times–bestselling second work of fiction by the author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings
Inside the church of a Benedictine monastery on Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before...

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