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Author
Series
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of northern women and that it is not possible to understand...
44) Midnight waltz
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the aristocratic world of the magnificent plantations of nineteenth-century Louisiana, young Amalie knows how to behave as the new mistress at Belle Grove, but her arranged marriage to Julien Declouet is full of surprises."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
An Englishwoman searches for her sister in colonial America in this historical tale of dark suspense, love, and betrayal for fans of Philippa Gregory.
Bright and inquisitive, Hannah Powers was raised by a father who treated her as if she were his son. While her beautiful and reckless sister, May, pushes the limits of propriety in their small English town, Hannah harbors her own secret: their father has given her an education forbidden to women. But,...
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In this evocative biography, Benjamin E. Wise presents the singular life of William Alexander Percy (1885-1942), a queer plantation owner, poet, and memoirist from Mississippi. Though Percy is best known as a conservative apologist of the southern racial order, in this telling Wise creates a complex and surprising portrait of a cultural relativist, sexual liberationist, and white supremacist.
We follow Percy as he travels from Mississippi around...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During a visit to her grandfather's plantation in Virginia during the summer of 1775, Felicity's loyalty is torn between her father and Ben, her father's apprentice who needs her help as he runs away to join George Washington's army of Patriots
48) Yellow Crocus
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Moments after Lisbeth is born, she's taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus begins an intense relationship that will shape both of their lives for decades to come. Though Lisbeth leads a life of privilege, she finds nothing but loneliness in the company of her overwhelmed mother and her distant, slave-owning father. As she...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story After marrying his daughter to an American businessman, a black Canadian, James Mink, finds out she has been sold into the slave trade. It is up to Mink and his wife to rescue their daughter and bring her home safely. - A Gathering of Old Men: When a white farmer is shot in self-defense by a black man, feisty plantation owner Candy Marshall (Holly Hunter) convinces a group of men to come forward en masse and take...
50) Indómita
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Pola, una mujer esclavizada en el Puerto Rico del siglo XIX ha sido forzada a vivir en el mundo brutalmente inhumano de las paridoras de esclavos. Golpeada y violada repetidamente, sus bebés le son arrebatados en el momento de nacer para no volver a verlos jamás. Después de un intento de fuga y una golpiza despiadada, despierta en una nueva plantación, Las Mercedes, para formar parte de su diversa comunidad negra. Pero su pasado la persigue en...
51) Eliza Pinckney
Author
Series
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
c1977
Language
English
Description
A biography of the industrious young woman who helped introduce the cultivation of the indigo plant in South Carolina
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the plantations that existed in the southern United States into the nineteenth century, examining what life was like for the owners of these large farming communities, their children, and the slaves.
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A story based on the true experiences of a Civil War heroine finds Carrie McGavock witnessing the bloodshed of the Battle of Franklin, falling in love with a wounded man, and dedicating her home as a burial site for fallen soldiers
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1776, eleven-year-old Felicity runs the household while her mother and siblings are away, but is distracted by her horse's ill health, two strangers in town, and the fear that a box of family heirlooms is haunted. Includes historical information about life in colonial Williamsburg.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1776, eleven-year-old Felicity suspects that an amateur naturalist visiting her family's Virginia plantation may actually be a British spy mapping Patriot plantations in advance of British raids. Includes historical information about the Revolutionary War
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
It is 1937 and Amabelle Desir, a young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic, has built herself a life as the servant and companion of the wife of a wealthy colonel. She and Sebastien, a cane worker, are deeply in love and plan to marry. But Amabelle's world collapses when a wave of genocidal violence, driven by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, leads to the slaughter of Haitian workers. Amabelle and Sebastien are separated, and she desperately...
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