NMAAHC READING RESOURCES Created for 3rd - 12th grade students and educators, the book selections are curated to provide enrichment about African American history and culture based on the permanent and temporary exhibitions within the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC).
C3 - C1 HISTORY GALLERIES: (C3) SLAVERY AND FREEDOM NMAAHC READING RESOURCES HISTORY GALLERIES
SLAVERY AND FREEDOM
This exhibition explores the complex story of slavery and freedom which rests at the core of our nation’s shared history. The exhibition begins in 15th century Africa and Europe, extends through the founding of the United States, and concludes with the nation’s transformation during the Civil War and Reconstruction. H I S T O R Y G A L L E R I E S
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Who Was Frederick Douglass? Biddy Mason Speaks Up April Jones Prince Arisa White and Laura Atkins Nonfiction Nonfiction
Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Searching for Sarah Rector: The Who Built the First Free Black Richest Black Girl in America Settlement in Colonial America Tonya Bolden Glennette Tilley Turner Nonfiction Nonfiction Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Eliza's Freedom Road: An Underground Jennings Won the Right to Ride in Railroad Diary New York Jerdine Nolen Amy Hill Hearth Fiction Nonfiction
Meet Addy: An American Girl (The Forge American Girls Collection Book 1) Laurie Halse Anderson Connie Porter Fiction Fiction Never Caught, the Story of Ona Dayshaun's Gift (City Kids) Judge: Young Readers Edition* (Volume 2) Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Kathleen Zetta Elliott Van Cleve Fiction Nonfiction
The Remarkable Story of George She Came to Slay Moses Horton: Poet Erica Amrstrong Dunbar Don Tate Nonfiction Nonfiction
The Bell Rang James E. Ransome Fiction H I S T O R Y G A L L E R I E S
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists Douglass: An American Slave and the Politics of Violence Frederick Douglass Kelly Carter Jackson Nonfiction Nonfiction
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation They Were Her Property: White Women Damian Duffy and Octavia Butler as Slave Owners in the American South Fiction Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers Nonfiction Crossing Ebenezer Creek Tonya Bolden The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery Fiction and the Making of American Capitalism A Wish After Midnight Edward E. Baptist Zetta Elliott Nonfiction Fiction Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Copper Sun Troubled History of America's Sharon M. Draper Universities Fiction Craig Steven Wilder Nonfiction Escape from Texas: A Novel of Slavery and the Texas War of Black Patriots and Loyalists: Independence Fighting for Emancipation in the Sharon M. Draper War for Independence Fiction Alan Gilbert Nonfiction Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet Jacobs A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from Nonfiction the Rise of the Slave Trade to the An Muslim American Slave: The Life of Age of Revolution Omar Ibn Said Toby Green Nonfiction Omar Ibn Said Nonfiction The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to The Water Dancer Grave in the Building of a Nation Ta-Nehisi Coates Fiction Daina Ramey Berry Nonfiction Twelve Years a Slave Solomon Northup Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Nonfiction David W. Blight Nonfiction
Images Credit: NMAAHC / Alan Karchmer