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[2024]., Adult, One World Call No: FIC RUF Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "When Adebimpe is ten, she is sold with her mother, Sanite, to plantation owner John du Marche. He soon renames her Ady but Sanite never lets her daughter forget who she really is - a person who can read and write and understand numbers. Most importantly, Sanite reminds Ady that she must never reveal these abilities to a white person, especially not her true name. Tasked with maintaining du Marche's home in vibrant New Orleans, Ady takes in the city and starts to envision life beyond her dire circumstances. One day, she notices a beautiful stranger, radiant and poised with a colorful Tignon wrapped regally around her head. Ady realizes that she is a Free Woman. Inexplicably drawn to her, but not knowing who she is or what she does, Ady begins to search for answers - which eventually brings her to Lenore, a free woman who owns the Mockingbird Inn. When Lenore invites Ady to join The Daughters, Ady finds spiritual and sexual liberation, and with their help, imagines a new future for herself and her family"--
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By Hesse, Karen1999., 5.6; 5-8, Scholastic Call No: YS DEA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Dear AmericaSummary Note: In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.
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1998., 5.1; Ages 3-6, Pleasant Co. Call No: YS POR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The American girls collectionSummary Note: In 1864, after her father and brother are sold to another owner, nine-year-old Addy Walker and her mother escape from their cruel life as slaves in North Carolina to freedom in Philadelphia.
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By Lacy, Alc2000., Adult, Multnomah Call No: FIC LAC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Mail order bride series Volume: no. 5Summary Note: Benjamin, having arrived from South Africa to be sold into slavery, is instead set free by Christian Zack Johnson, and becomes friends with Zack's son, Dan. When the two young men decide to travel west, Ben must work hard to overcome prejudice and to earn the money to buy the freedom of the woman he left behind.