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  • Echoes from the Valley

    by Crampton Harris Helms ...
    What began as a list of names, a box of documents, a number of family Bibles, and idle curiosity gradually evolved into a book about the settlement of Virginia and the western conquest of the great Valley of the Shenandoah, the birth of the New River settlements, and the emergence of the Watauga and Holston pioneers on the western slopes of the Appalachian Mountains. Placing the generations into a ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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  • Forbidden Fruit

    Love Stories from the Underground Railroad

    by Betty DeRamus ...
    Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold tales of ordinary men and women who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to be together**—**and defy a system that categorized blacks not only as servants, but as property.In the true love stories of Forbidden Fruit, you will meet sixteen couples who fought for love—love between slaves, between slaves and masters, and ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • One More River to Cross

    by Bryan Prince ...
    In the early to mid-nineteenth century, Isaac Brown, a slave, was accused of the attempted murder of a prominent plantation owner, despite there being no evidence of his guilt. Brown, after enduring two brutal floggings, was shipped to a New Orleans slave pen. From there the resourceful Brown was able to make a daring escape to Philadelphia in the free state of Pennsylvania. His biggest error was ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Runaway Slaves

    Rebels on the Plantation

    by John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger ...
    From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled against their masters and ran away from their plantations whenever they could. For generations, important aspects about slave life on the plantations ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Freedom by Any Means

    Con Games, Voodoo Schemes, True Love and Lawsuits on the Underground Railroad

    by Betty DeRamus ...
    Following up Betty DeRamus’s Essence bestselling Forbidden Fruit, Freedom by Any Means follows the story of extraordinary acts of courage and love by Blacks in the American slave era with beautifully written and inspiring stories of how slaves used the law**—against all odds—**to gain freedom for themselv... ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • A Shadow on the Household

    One Enslaved Family's Incredible Struggle for Freedom

    by Bryan Prince ...
    The extraordinary story of one couple’s determination to free themselves and their children from slavery and make a new life in CanadaPrior to abolition in 1865, as many as 40,000 men, women, and children made the perilous trip north from enslavement in the United States to freedom in Canada. Many were aided by networks that came to be known as the Underground Railroad. And the stories that emerge ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Pioneer Families of Colonial America: From Native Americans and the Mayflower to the Irish Canadians

    by MaryAnn Rizzo ...
    A genealogical study of the Doty and Kelly families originally done by John Hubert Doty and updated by MaryAnn Doty Rizzo. Includes historical information and documentation. The Doty family goes back to the Mayflower. The Kelly family are Irish Canadians. Other families include: King, Miller, Force, Logue, Logsdon, Cavanee, and Dial. Some of these families have connections to George Washington. ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Allendale on the Savannah - Revisited

    by Jim Bryan ...
    Allendale on the Savannah - Revisited is based on an earlier work and is a historical account of the settlement and development of Allendale County, SC from the days of early Spanish explorers through 1970.It is based on the work of my Great Aunt, Alexania Easterling Lawton and Mrs. Minnie Reeves Wilson which was published in 1970. This work attempts to correct some of the mistakes in the original ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bryan Prince's Underground Railroad 2-Book Bundle

    My Brother's Keeper / One More River to Cross

    by Bryan Prince ...
    Award-winning author Bryan Prince portrays the experiences of slaves and former slaves in these compelling histories of the Underground Railroad and American Civil War. This special two-book collection includes:My Brother’s Keeper: African Canadians and the American Civil WarThe stirring story of African Canadians who had fled slavery and oppression in the United States but returned to enlist in ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Settling the South Carolina Backcountry

    The Pressly Family and Life Along Hard Labor Creek, 1767-1850

    by Nancy L. Pressly ...
    In tracing three generations of a family in the South Carolina backcountry, Nancy Pressly explores how the communities along Hard Labor Creek, located at the crossroads of several major wagon routes, evolved from a newly settled frontier in the 1760s to a remarkable center of wealth and power in the decades before the Civil War. The author presents the compelling story of a close-knit, rural ... Read more

    $12.67 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Franklin Park Tragedy

    A Forgotten Story of Racial Injustice in New Jersey

    by Brian Armstrong ...
    Historian Brian Armstrong tells the shocking story of this "sundown town" and how it evolved into the diverse community that exists today.On March 1, 1894, two African American men broke into a home in rural Franklin Park, New Jersey. and murdered a white woman and her daughter before her husband fought and killed the attackers. The newspapers called it the "Franklin Park Tragedy," and the story ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Jamestown to Texas

    A History of Some Early Pioneers of Austin County

    by Betty Smith Meischen ...
    The rugged character and indomitable spirit of the early pioneers of Stephen F. Austins Texas colony had their roots in a turbulent, distant past. From the early 1600s, their courageous ancestors had pushed westward, leaving the European shores to carve out a new nation from the wilderness. They fled religious and political oppression in search of a better life in which freedom was of supreme ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD