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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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920L
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English
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The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid, and follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), the author allows herself to go beyond the record...
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English
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Forbidden by her husband to join any further anti-slavery outings due to her fragile health, Ann Phillips, a passionate advocate of abolition from her earliest years, is determined to help fugitive slave Anthony Burns, who is apprehended in Boston, no matter what it costs her.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a wealthy slave-holding family from Richmond, Virginia, Caroline Fletcher is raised in a culture that believes slavery is God-ordained and biblically acceptable. But upon awakening to the cruelty and injustice it encompasses, Caroline's eyes are opened for the first time to the men and women who have cared tirelessly for her. Her journey of maturity and faith will draw her into the abolitionist movement, where she is confronted with...
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River of freedom volume 1
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English
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A multigenerational family saga where the main characters interact with actual historical Christians who helped changed America for the better. The story of a fictional southern family intertwines across three decades with key historical figures at the heart of the abolitionist movement in the United States.
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Beneath the burning ground volume 1
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English
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The Wares are only one of the families that will soon be caught up in the burning issue of slavery with raids from the Border Ruffians out of Missouri and John Brown's small army devoted to ending slavery and helping runaways to escape to the north. To aid and abet a runaway slave is a crime that carries a dear price.
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2021.
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English
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"It's 1835 in Utica, New York, and newlywed Helen Galway discovers a secret: two runaway slaves are hiding in the shack behind her husband's house. Suddenly, she is at the center of not only the era's greatest moral dilemma, but her own as well. Should she be a "good wife" and report the fugitives to her husband? Or will she defy convention and come to their aid. Within her home, Helen is haunted by the previous Mrs. Galway, recently deceased but...
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In the Kansas Territory near the border with Missouri, border skirmishes have been replaced by the opening of hostilities in the War Between the States. Jonathan Ware and his wife are deeply troubled that their sons have enlisted on opposing sides of the conflict. The Wares and other homestead families are subject to raids by renegades from both sides, and when Jonathan Ware and Bishop Jardine are killed, the women are left unprotected. But Christy...
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