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Author |
: Francis Bok |
Publisher |
: Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages |
: 190 |
Release |
: 2007-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429971010 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429971010 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Escape from Slavery by : Francis Bok
In this groundbreaking modern slave narrative, Francis Bok shares his remarkable story with grace, honesty, and a wisdom gained from surviving ten years in captivity. May, 1986: Selling his mother's eggs and peanuts near his village in southern Sudan, seven year old Francis Bok's life was shattered when Arab raiders on horseback, armed with rifles and long knives, burst into the quiet marketplace, murdering men and women and gathering the young children into a group. Strapped to horses and donkeys, Francis and others were taken north, into lives of slavery under wealthy Muslim farmers. For ten years, Francis lived alone in a shed near the goats and cattle that were his responsibility. Fed with scraps from the table, slowly learning bits of an unfamiliar language and religion, the boy had almost no human contact other than his captor's family. After two failed attempts to escape-each bringing severe beatings and death threats-Francis finally escaped at age seventeen, a dramatic breakaway on foot that was his final chance. Yet his slavery did not end there, for even as he made his way toward the capital city of Khartoum, others sought to deprive him of his freedom. Determined to avoid that fate and discover what had happened to his family on that terrible day in 1986, the teenager persevered through prison and refugee camps for three more years, winning the attention of United Nations officials and being granted passage to America. Now a student and an anti-slavery activist, Francis Bok has made it his life mission to combat world slavery. His is the first voice to speak for an estimated twenty seven million people held against their will in nearly every nation, including our own. Escape from Slavery is at once a riveting adventure, a story of desperation and triumph, and a window revealing a world that few have survived to tell.
Author |
: Frederick Douglass |
Publisher |
: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages |
: 32 |
Release |
: 2017-10-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 197844494X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781978444942 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (4X Downloads) |
Synopsis My Escape from Slavery by : Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Maryland around February 1818. He escaped in 1838, but in each of the three accounts he wrote of his life he did not give any details of how he gained his freedom lest slaveholders use the information to prevent other slaves from escaping, and to prevent those who had helped him from being punished.
Author |
: William Craft |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 151 |
Release |
: 2011-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820340807 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820340804 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by : William Craft
In 1848 William and Ellen Craft made one of the most daring and remarkable escapes in the history of slavery in America. With fair-skinned Ellen in the guise of a white male planter and William posing as her servant, the Crafts traveled by rail and ship--in plain sight and relative luxury--from bondage in Macon, Georgia, to freedom first in Philadelphia, then Boston, and ultimately England. This edition of their thrilling story is newly typeset from the original 1860 text. Eleven annotated supplementary readings, drawn from a variety of contemporary sources, help to place the Crafts’ story within the complex cultural currents of transatlantic abolitionism.
Author |
: Cathy Moore |
Publisher |
: Millbrook Press |
Total Pages |
: 52 |
Release |
: 2010-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780761366737 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0761366733 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ellen Craft's Escape from Slavery by : Cathy Moore
In the 1840s, runaway slaves faced many dangers. They were often caught and sometimes killed. Ellen Craft and her husband William knew the risks. And they decided to take a chance. Ellen and William had a daring plan to escape from slavery. Posing as a white man, Ellen hoped to travel north as William's slave master. But the two had many states to cross. Would they reach freedom? Or would someone see through Ellen's disguise? In the back of this book, you'll find a script and instructions for putting on a reader's theater performance of this adventure. Download additional copies of the script plus sound effects, background images, and more ideas that will help make your reader's theater performance a success through Lerner eSource.
Author |
: Moses Roper |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2009-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1409985601 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781409985600 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery by : Moses Roper
Moses Roper (c. 1815-1891) was a mulatto slave who wrote one of the major early books about life as a slave in the United States - A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper From American Slavery (1838). Moses was born in Caswell County, North Carolina. He grew up with his mother and was trained as a domestic slave until he was about seven years old when his father exchanged him and his mother for other slaves. Roper struggled tremendously when he was put to work in the fields and forests of the South-receiving harsher treatment for his inefficiency from his overseers and masters. Throughout his time in slavery, Moses attempted escape on at least 16 occasions, most of them while under his cruelest master, Mr. Gooch. He became quite famous in England because of his grand escape from American slavery and the book he later wrote about his life as a slave. In his book, he made sure to include explicit examples of the torture methods used by slave holders.
Author |
: Jehan Jones-Radgowski |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 41 |
Release |
: 2019-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781543512892 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1543512895 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Escape of Robert Smalls by : Jehan Jones-Radgowski
The mist in Charleston Inner Harbor was heavy, but not heavy enough to disguise the stolen Confederate steamship, the Planter, from Confederate soldiers. In the early hours of May 13, 1862, in the midst of the deadly U.S. Civil War, an enslaved man named Robert Smalls was about to carry out a perilous plan of escape. Standing at the helm of the ship, Smalls impersonated the captain as he and his crew passed heavily armed Confederate forts to enter Union territory, where escaped slaves were given shelter. The suspenseful escape of the determined crew is celebrated with beautiful artwork and insightful prose, detailing the true account of an unsung American hero.
Author |
: Duchess Harris |
Publisher |
: ABDO |
Total Pages |
: 51 |
Release |
: 2018-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781532170591 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1532170599 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Oney Judge: Escape from Slavery and the President's House by : Duchess Harris
President George Washington and his wife enslaved more than 150 people in the mid-1700s. In 1796, one of their slaves escaped. Her name was Oney "Ona" Judge. Oney Judge: Escape from Slavery and the President's House explores her story and her legacy. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author |
: Cate Lineberry |
Publisher |
: St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2017-06-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250101860 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250101867 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Be Free Or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero by : Cate Lineberry
It was a mild May morning in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1862, the second year of the Civil War, when a 23-year-old enslaved man named Robert Smalls boldly seized a Confederate steamer. With his wife and two young children hidden on board, Smalls and a small crew ran a gauntlet of heavily armed fortifications in Charleston Harbour and delivered the valuable vessel and the massive guns it carried to nearby Union forces. Smalls' courageous and ingenious act freed him and his family from slavery and immediately made him a Union hero. It also challenged much of the country's view of what African Americans were willing to do for their freedom. In 'Be Free or Die, ' Cate Lineberry tells the remarkable story of Smalls' escape and his many accomplishments during the war, including becoming the first black captain of an Army vessel
Author |
: John Andrew Jackson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 62 |
Release |
: 1862 |
ISBN-10 |
: BL:A0026884577 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina. [Edited by W. M. S.] by : John Andrew Jackson
The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina by John Andrew Jackson, first published in 1862, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author |
: R. J. M. Blackett |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 137 |
Release |
: 2013-09-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469608785 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469608782 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Making Freedom by : R. J. M. Blackett
The 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, which mandated action to aid in the recovery of runaway slaves and denied fugitives legal rights if they were apprehended, quickly became a focal point in the debate over the future of slavery and the nature of the union. In Making Freedom, R. J. M. Blackett uses the experiences of escaped slaves and those who aided them to explore the inner workings of the Underground Railroad and the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, while shedding light on the political effects of slave escape in southern states, border states, and the North. Blackett highlights the lives of those who escaped, the impact of the fugitive slave cases, and the extent to which slaves planning to escape were aided by free blacks, fellow slaves, and outsiders who went south to entice them to escape. Using these stories of particular individuals, moments, and communities, Blackett shows how slave flight shaped national politics as the South witnessed slavery beginning to collapse and the North experienced a threat to its freedom.