Diane Dillon, Ph.D.
LEO AND DIANE DILLON'S award-winning picture book interpretation of Newbery Medalist Virginia Hamilton's beloved tale now includes an unforgettable word-for-word CD narration by James Earl Jones and Virginia Hamilton. This tale of slaves who ... [... more]
Random House |
Hallacas (Venezuela)
The hallaca is the main Venezuelan Christmas dinner dish. It was created by the slaves during the colony times. They put the left-overs of their master's Christmas festivities in a bit of cornmeal dough, wrapped this with banana leaves and cooked ... [... more]
International Vegetarian Union |
Kate McMullan
This inspiring biography of Harriet Tubman tells how she helped free over 300 slaves as a "conductor" for the Underground Railroad and how she became a nurse, a scout and spy for the Union Forces during the Civil War. Less than 200 years ago, .. [... more]
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Tananarive Due
Tananarive Due is a former features writer and columnist for the Miami Herald. She has written two highly acclaimed novels: The Between and My Soul to Keep. Ms. Due makes her home in Longview, Washington. Born to former slaves on a Louisiana ... [... more]
Random House |
Sarah Pomeroy
Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves Women in Classical Antiquity "The first general treatment of women in the ancient world to reflect the critical insights of modern feminism. Though much debated, its position as the basic textbook on women's ... [... more]
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Leo Dillon
LEO AND DIANE DILLON'S award-winning picture book interpretation of Newbery Medalist Virginia Hamilton's beloved tale now includes an unforgettable word-for-word CD narration by James Earl Jones and Virginia Hamilton. This tale of slaves who ... [... more]
Random House |
Virginia Hamilton
LEO AND DIANE DILLON'S award-winning picture book interpretation of Newbery Medalist Virginia Hamilton's beloved tale now includes an unforgettable word-for-word CD narration by James Earl Jones and Virginia Hamilton. This tale of slaves who ... [... more]
Random House |
Christian Cameron
Inspired by a little-known historical fact-that American slaves fought alongside the British in the Revolutionary War-this epic novel tells of a Mount Vernon slave who joins a Loyalist black regiment charged with defeating his former master on ... [... more]
Random House |
Gregory A. Freeman
Gregory A. Freeman is the author of Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves. An award-winning journalist with twenty years' experience, he lives in Atlanta, Georgia. [... more]
Harper Collins |
God's Gift to Women
In a culture that exalts the caveman-like qualities of masculinity, most women have stopped expecting anything more. Young men are taught to view women as slaves to their self-centered desires. More than ever, men need to know that they can rise ... [... more]
Random House |
Stephen Wisdom
The gladiatorial games of the Roman world comprised battle for entertainment and slaughter for profit. Although notorious for the use of prisoners of war, conquered slaves and condemned criminals as dispensable 'extras', some did volunteer for ... [... more]
Random House |
David Blight
Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation Slave narratives are extremely rare. Of the one hundred or so of these testimonies that survive, a mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and ... [... more]
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