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Two-Dollar Terrors eBook Series

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  • What The Little Dog Witnessed: The True Crime Of Ed Hubbard & Willie Roberts

    Two-Dollar Terrors, #11

    by Patrick Bowmaster ...
    Series Book 11 - Two-Dollar Terrors
    Career convict and con artist Ed Hubbard and his accomplice Willie Roberts, a young and attractive prostitute, set out to play a long game against the farmer Pleas Burns, who owned a spread on the Spring River in Arkansas. But Willie grows tired of waiting and pressures Hubbard to "fix the old man." Even with a backstory of multiple marriages, extramarital affairs, an incompetent judge, an ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Slave in the White House

    Paul Jennings and the Madisons

    by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor ...
    New York Times Bestseller: A "fascinating portrait" of one of the men enslaved by James and Dolley Madison, and his journey toward freedom ( Publishers Weekly).Paul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household staff at the White House. Once he was finally emancipated by Senator Daniel Webster later in life, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Worse Than Slavery

    by David M. Oshinsky ...
    This sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity explores an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the Civil Rights Era—and beyond.Immortalized in blues songs and movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones, Mississippi’s infamous Parchman State Penitentiary was synonymous with cruelty. Now, noted historian David Oshinsky gives us the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Benjamin Franklin: The New Prometheus

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Biographical profile of Benjamin Franklin, the most famous and highly regarded American in Europe during colonial times and the Revolutionary War. One of the Founding Fathers, Franklin was instrumental in virtually every phase of the birth, creation and establishment of the United States. However, Franklin was a man of many talents, a true American Leonardo da Vinci who excelled in many fields. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Road to Dawn

    Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War

    by Jared A. Brock ...
    A major literary moment: after being lost to history for more than a century, The Road to Dawn uncovers the incredible story of the real-life slave who inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin.-He rescued 118 enslaved people-He won a medal at the first World's Fair in London-Queen Victoria invited him to Windsor Castle-Rutherford B. Hayes entertained him at the White House-He helped start a freeman settlement, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Help Me to Find My People

    The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery

    by Heather Andrea Williams ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant “information wanted” advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers back to devastating moments of family separation during slavery when people were sold away from parents, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

  • The Underground Railroad

    by Raymond Bial ...
    By ones, twos, and threes, in the years before the Civil War thousands of enslaved people slipped through the night on their way to freedom, riding the Underground Railroad. Hidden and hunted, the escape of southern slaves to the North remains a compelling event in American history. Within the pages of this book are documented, in prose and elegantly articulate photographs, examples of "stations" ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Atlanta Ripper

    The Unsolved Case of the Gate City's Most Infamous Murders

    by Jeffery Wells ...
    An examination of the unsolved mystery of the Jack the Ripper-style serial killer who terrified early 20th century Atlanta, Georgia.As Atlanta finished rebuilding after the Civil War, a new horror arose from the ashes to roam the night streets. Beginning in 1911, a killer whose methods mimicked the famed Jack the Ripper murdered at least twenty black women, from prostitutes to working-class women ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Is the Declaration of Independence?

    by Michael C. Harris, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Jerry Hoare ...
    Series series What Was?
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Step back in time to the creation of America’s founding document with this fascinating history for young readers, part of the beloved What Was? series. The perfect way to celebrate the U.S.A.’s 250th anniversary!On a hot summer day near Philadelphia in 1776, Thomas Jefferson sat at his desk and wrote furiously well into the night. He was drafting the Declaration of ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Meet George Washington

    by Joan Heilbroner ...
    Series series Landmark Books
    This valiant story of how young George Washington was drawn into his country's struggle for independence gives readers a vivid perspective on a crucial era in American history--and on the life of a revolutionary hero. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD