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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorHenry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
Ellen Levine · 40 pages
A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.
Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad
Henry Cole · 40 pages
In this wordless picture book, a young Southern farm girl discovers a runaway slave hiding behind the corn crib in the barn and decides to help him.
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
Laban Carrick Hill · 40 pages
Chronicles the life of Dave, a nineteenth-century slave who went on to become an influential poet, artist, and potter.
Freedom in Congo Square
Carole Boston Weatherford · 40 pages
Six days a week, slaves labor from sunup to sundown and beyond, but on Sunday afternoons, they gather with free blacks at Congo Square outside New Orleans, free from oppression. Includes foreword about Congo Square by Freddi Williams Evans, glossary, and historical notes.
Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton
Don Tate · 37 pages
In the nineteenth century, North Carolina slave George Moses Horton taught himself to read and earned money to purchase his time, although not his freedom. Horton became the first African American to be published in the South, protesting slavery in the form of verse.
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
Kadir Nelson · 112 pages
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
Deborah Hopkinson · 40 pages
A young slave stitches a quilt with a map pattern which guides her to freedom in the North.
Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Jonah Winter
As an elderly woman, Lillian recalls that her great-great-grandparents were sold as slaves in front of a courthouse where only rich white men were allowed to vote, then the long fight that led to her right--and determination--to cast her ballot since the Voting Rights Act gave every American the right to vote.
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman
Alan Schroeder · 40 pages
Young Harriet Tubman, whose childhood name was Minty, dreams of escaping slavery on the Brodas plantation in the late 1820s.
Abraham Lincoln
Ingri d'Aulaire, Edgar Parin d'Aulaire · 56 pages
Text and illustrations present the life of the boy born on the Kentucky frontier who became the sixteenth president of the United States.
Rose Blanche
Roberto Innocenti, Christophe Gallaz · 32 pages
During World War II, a young German girl's curiosity leads her to discover something far more terrible than the day-to-day hardships and privations that she and her neighbors have experienced.
Amos Fortune, Free Man
Elizabeth Yates · 181 pages
The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.
Jefferson's Sons
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley · 400 pages
A fictionalized look at the last twenty years of Thomas Jefferson's life at Monticello through the eyes of three of his slaves, two of whom were his sons by his slave, Sally Hemings.
Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom
Tim Tingle · 40 pages
In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.
Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson · 40 pages
This biography profiles the life of Bass Reeves, a former slave who was recruited as a deputy United States Marshal in the area that was to become Oklahoma.
Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom
Shane W. Evans
Pink and Say
Patricia Polacco
Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops. Based on a true story about the author's great-great-grandfather.
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
Margarita Engle · 44 pages
Follows a young Cuban girl in the 1930s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there's never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.
The First Drawing
Mordicai Gerstein
Thirty thousand years ago, an imaginative child sees the shapes of animals in clouds and on the walls of the cave he shares with his family, but no one else can see them until he makes the world's first drawing. Includes author's note on cave drawings. Thirty thousand years ago, an imaginative child sees the shapes of animals in clouds and on the walls of the cave he shares with his family, but n
Chains
Laurie Halse Anderson · 326 pages
If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth a
Elijah of Buxton
Christopher Paul Curtis · 341 pages
Elijah has to go find this former slave that stole a friends money who was planning on buying his family back out of slavery. What happens along the way is terrifying to even think about, friends getting shot, dying, and freeing slaves.