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Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Young Benjamin Holmes, a slave in Charleston who has taught himself to read, reads Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation to his fellow slaves in prison.
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Freedmen occupied a place in Roman society between slaves on the one hand and full citizens on the other. Playing an extremely important role in the economic life of the Roman world, they were also a key instrument for replenishing and even increasing the size of the citizen body; but their position between slave and citizen was of course not unproblematic. Henrik Mouritsen presents an original synthesis of Roman manumission, for the first time covering...
Author
Language
English
Description
""It is staggering that there is no date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States." -Annette Gordon-Reed. The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native. Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, recounts...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1160L
Language
English
Description
A commemorative introduction to the Emancipation Proclamation provides excerpts from historical sources, reproductions of archival images, and lesser-known facts that challenge popular beliefs.
14) The faces of freedom: the manumission and emancipation of slaves in Old World and New World slavery
Series
Atlantic world volume 7
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of emancipation and its impact on the Civil War, discussing how Lincoln and the Republicans fought primarily for freeing slaves throughout the war, not just as a secondary objective in an effort to restore the country.
18) Juneteenth
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Learn about how freedom came to the slaves in June 1865.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In a landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Foner gives us a life of Lincoln as it intertwined with slavery, the defining issue of the time and the tragic hallmark of American history. The author demonstrates how Lincoln navigated a dynamic political landscape deftly, moving in measured steps, often on a path forged by abolitionists and radicals in his party, and that Lincoln's greatness lay in his capacity for moral and political growth.
