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Stony the Road We Trod, Volume 1

The Grimké Family’s Journey from Slavery to Suffrage

by Rosemary T. Curran ...

When Angelina Grimke pleads with her brother Henry not to punish a household slave, she does not anticipate her "stony road" ahead as a remarkably effective abolitionist speaker. Leaving behind their illustrious slave-holding family, she and her sister, Sarah, take their northern audiences by storm. Yet the very fact of their speaking in public, as women, doubles the opposition they face and leads ... Read more

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When Angelina Grimke pleads with her brother Henry not to punish a household slave, she does not anticipate her "stony road" ahead as a remarkably effective abolitionist speaker. Leaving behind their illustrious slave-holding family, she and her sister, Sarah, take their northern audiences by storm. Yet the very fact of their speaking in public, as women, doubles the opposition they face and leads
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Disabled Children's Childhood Studies

Critical Approaches in a Global Context

Edited by T. Curran, K. Runswick-Cole ...

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This collection offers first-hand accounts, research studies and in-depth theoretical explorations of disabled children's childhoods. The accounts oppose the global imposition of problematic views of disability and childhood and instead, offer an open discussion of responsive and ethical research approaches. ... Read more

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This collection offers first-hand accounts, research studies and in-depth theoretical explorations of disabled children's childhoods. The accounts oppose the global imposition of problematic views of disability and childhood and instead, offer an open discussion of responsive and ethical research approaches.
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The Sinners All Bow

Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne

by Kate Winkler Dawson ...

**INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!One of Amazon’s Best History Books of JanuaryAcclaimed journalist, podcaster, and true*-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder investigation that became the inspiration for both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and the first true-crime book published in America.*On a cold winter day in 1832, Sarah Maria Cornell was ... Read more

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**INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!One of Amazon’s Best History Books of JanuaryAcclaimed journalist, podcaster, and true*-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder investigation that became the inspiration for both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and the first true-crime book published in America.*On a cold winter day in 1832, Sarah Maria Cornell was
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A Break with Charity

A Story about the Salem Witch Trials

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A village girl seeking friendship is swept up into the Salem Witch Trials in award-winning author Ann Rinaldi's young adult novel, A Break with Clarity.Susanna English desperately wants to join the circle of girls who meet every week at the parsonage, but she doesn't realize the leader of the group, the malicious Ann Putnam, is about to set off a torrent of false accusations that will lead to the ... Read more

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A village girl seeking friendship is swept up into the Salem Witch Trials in award-winning author Ann Rinaldi's young adult novel, A Break with Clarity.Susanna English desperately wants to join the circle of girls who meet every week at the parsonage, but she doesn't realize the leader of the group, the malicious Ann Putnam, is about to set off a torrent of false accusations that will lead to the
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Chasing Freedom

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Young Adult Historical FictionA story of the struggle of Black Loyalists and their arrival in Nova Scotia.NEW:// Teaching Guide Available HereShortlisted for The Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature.The American Revolutionary War is being waged, and the fate of slaves in the colonies is on the line. Sarah Redmond, a slave on a S... ... Read more

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Young Adult Historical FictionA story of the struggle of Black Loyalists and their arrival in Nova Scotia.NEW:// Teaching Guide Available HereShortlisted for The Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature.The American Revolutionary War is being waged, and the fate of slaves in the colonies is on the line. Sarah Redmond, a slave on a S...
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Taking the Underground Railroad to Freedom – Selected True Stories from Former Slaves & Abolitionists (Illustrated) (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. Courageous Journeys to Liberation

by William Still, Sarah Bradford, Laura S. Haviland, Bennett Alderwyn ...

Taking the Underground Railroad to Freedom gathers firsthand narratives and abolitionist testimony into a vivid documentary portrait of resistance, flight, and moral courage in nineteenth-century America. Blending memoir, biography, reportage, and reform literature, the volume situates individual escapes within the larger struggle against slavery. Its illustrated format further underscores the ... Read more

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Taking the Underground Railroad to Freedom gathers firsthand narratives and abolitionist testimony into a vivid documentary portrait of resistance, flight, and moral courage in nineteenth-century America. Blending memoir, biography, reportage, and reform literature, the volume situates individual escapes within the larger struggle against slavery. Its illustrated format further underscores the
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The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom as Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author

by William Still ...

Like millions of my race, my mother and father were born slaves, but were not contented to live and die so. My father purchased himself in early manhood by hard toil. Mother saw no way for herself and children to escape the horrors of bondage but by flight. Bravely, with her four little ones, with firm faith in God and an ardent desire to be free, she forsook the prison-house, and succeeded, ... Read more

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Like millions of my race, my mother and father were born slaves, but were not contented to live and die so. My father purchased himself in early manhood by hard toil. Mother saw no way for herself and children to escape the horrors of bondage but by flight. Bravely, with her four little ones, with firm faith in God and an ardent desire to be free, she forsook the prison-house, and succeeded,
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Wicked Conduct

The Minister, the Mill Girl and the Murder that Captivated Old Rhode Island

by Rory Raven ...

The mentalist, mindbinder, and author of Haunted Providence delves into the 19th-century murder of Sarah Maria Cornell."If I should be missing, enquire of the Rev. Mr. Avery of Bristol, he will know where I am."This scribbled note belonged to Sarah M. Cornell, written the day her body was found hanged in a rural pasture in Tiverton, Rhode Island. An unmarried young woman of limited means, Sarah ... Read more

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The mentalist, mindbinder, and author of Haunted Providence delves into the 19th-century murder of Sarah Maria Cornell."If I should be missing, enquire of the Rev. Mr. Avery of Bristol, he will know where I am."This scribbled note belonged to Sarah M. Cornell, written the day her body was found hanged in a rural pasture in Tiverton, Rhode Island. An unmarried young woman of limited means, Sarah
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The Secret of Sarah Revere

by Ann Rinaldi ...

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The daughter of Paul Revere tells of her father's secret—and her own: " A lively, exciting picture of Boston going to war…excellent."— VOYAThirteen-year-old Sarah Revere knows her father is a Patriot hero, a champion of the Colonies against the British. But she also knows that Paul Revere guards a secret about the start of the Revolutionary War that he will tell no one—not his new wife, not his ... Read more

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The daughter of Paul Revere tells of her father's secret—and her own: " A lively, exciting picture of Boston going to war…excellent."— VOYAThirteen-year-old Sarah Revere knows her father is a Patriot hero, a champion of the Colonies against the British. But she also knows that Paul Revere guards a secret about the start of the Revolutionary War that he will tell no one—not his new wife, not his
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The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina

Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolition

by Gerda Lerner ...

A landmark work of women’s history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner’s best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimké explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women’s rights. This revised and expanded edition includes two new primary documents and an additional essay by Lerner. In a revised introduction Lerner ... Read more

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A landmark work of women’s history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner’s best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimké explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women’s rights. This revised and expanded edition includes two new primary documents and an additional essay by Lerner. In a revised introduction Lerner
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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Indiana Narratives

by United States Work Projects Administration ...

George W. Arnold was born April 7, 1861, in Bedford County, Tennessee. He was the property of Oliver P. Arnold, who owned a large farm or plantation in Bedford county. His mother was a native of Rome, Georgia, where she remained until twelve years of age, when she was sold at auction. Oliver Arnold bought her, and he also purchased her three brothers and one uncle. The four negroes were taken ... Read more

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George W. Arnold was born April 7, 1861, in Bedford County, Tennessee. He was the property of Oliver P. Arnold, who owned a large farm or plantation in Bedford county. His mother was a native of Rome, Georgia, where she remained until twelve years of age, when she was sold at auction. Oliver Arnold bought her, and he also purchased her three brothers and one uncle. The four negroes were taken
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Bright Circle

Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism

by Randall Fuller ...

A group biography of five women who played path-breaking roles in the transcendentalist movement In November 1839, a group of young women in Boston formed a conversation society “to answer the great questions” of special importance to women: "What are we born to do? How shall we do it?" The lives and works of the five women who discussed these questions are at the center of Bright Circle, a group ... Read more

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A group biography of five women who played path-breaking roles in the transcendentalist movement In November 1839, a group of young women in Boston formed a conversation society “to answer the great questions” of special importance to women: "What are we born to do? How shall we do it?" The lives and works of the five women who discussed these questions are at the center of Bright Circle, a group
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