Bibliography
Reading Level: 9 & under
Halfmann, Janet, and Duane Smith. Seven Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story. New York: Lee & Low Books, 2008.
Hill, Laban Carrick, and Bryan Collier. Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave. New York: Little, Brown, 2010.
Levine, Ellen, and Kadir Nelson. Henry's Freedom Box. New York: Scholastic Press, 2007.
Polacco, Patricia. Pink and Say. New York: Philomel Books, 1994.
Rappaport, Doreen, and Shane Evans. No More!: Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2002.
Weatherford, Carole Boston, and Kadir Nelson. Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2006.
Whelan, Gloria, and Mike Benny. The Listeners. Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press, 2009.
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Bibliography
Reading Level: Ages 9-14
Cooper, Afua. My Name Is Phillis Wheatley: A Story of Slavery and Freedom. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2009.
Douglass, Frederick, Michael McCurdy, and Frederick Douglass. Escape from Slavery: The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass in His Own Words. New York: Knopf, 1994.
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Hamilton, Virginia, Leo Dillon, and Diane Dillon. Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom. New York: Knopf, 1993.
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McKissack, Patricia C. A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859. Dear America Series. New York, Scholastic Books, 1997.
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Bibliography
Reading Level: Ages 14-17
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Douglass, Frederick, and Robert G. O'Meally. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003.
Egerton, Douglas R. He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey. Madison, Wis: Madison House, 1999.
Equiano, Olaudah, and Robert J. Allison. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Feelings, Tom. The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo. New York: Dial Books, 1995.
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Horton, James Oliver, and Lois E. Horton. Slavery and the Making of America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Jacobs, Harriet A., Lydia Maria Child, and Jean Fagan Yellin. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1987.
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Northup, Solomon, Sue L. Eakin, and Joseph Logsdon. Twelve Years a Slave. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1968.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Henry Louis Gates, Hollis Robbins, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2007.
Ward, Andrew. The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 2008.
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