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  • Heroes of the Underground Railroad Around Washington, D. C.

    by Jenny Masur ...
    Many of the unsung heroes of the Underground Railroad lived and worked in Washington, D.C.Men and women, black and white, operatives and freedom seekers - all demonstrated courage, resourcefulness and initiative. Leonard Grimes, a free African American, was arrested for transporting enslaved people to freedom. John Dean, a white lawyer, used the District courts to test the legality of the Fugitive ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grieve Like A Mother, Survive Like A Warrior

    Stories & Strategies of Healing After Child Loss

    When the unimaginable happens, how do you find your way forward? For fourteen mothers from the Warrior Moms of North Atlanta support group, the answer came through sharing their journeys together.Grieve Like a Mother, Survive Like a Warrior brings you into the sacred space where these mothers, each having lost a child, reveal how we can rise to find new meaning from the depths of our agonizing ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Kylie - Naked

    A Biography

    Kylie Naked is the bestselling biography of Kylie Minogue. First published in 2002 to coincide with her massive Fever arena tour of the UK and Europe, the book was the first to tell the story of her well publicised relationships with Michael Hutchence, Jason Donovan and James Gooding. From Neighbours to Stock Aitken and Waterman to her disco revival at the top of the charts, this intimate ... Read more

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  • A Slave in the White House

    Paul Jennings and the Madisons

    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

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  • Bound for the Promised Land

    Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero

    The essential, “richly researched”* biography of Harriet Tubman, revealing a complex woman who “led a remarkable life, one that her race, her sex, and her origins make all the more extraordinary” (*The New York Times Book Review).Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines ... Read more

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  • The Hatfields & the McCoys

    by Otis K. Rice ...
    "A captivating account of two families whose stubbornness and loyalty were exceeded only by their capacity for a terrible revenge." — Southern LivingThe Hatfield-McCoy feud has long been a famous part of Appalachian history, but over the years it's become encrusted with myth and error. Novelists, motion picture producers, television writers, and others have neglected to separate fact from fiction, ... Read more

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  • The President and the Freedom Fighter

    Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNow with a new epilogue, the thrilling story of how Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass changed America, from the New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.**In The President and the Freedom Fighter, Brian Kilmeade tells the little-known story of how two American heroes moved from strong ... Read more

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  • Stolen Childhood

    Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Wilma King ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    An updated edition of the classic study that took "an enormous step toward filling some of the voids in the literature of slavery" ( The Washington Post Book World).One of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-century America. This enlarged and revised edition reflects the abundance of new scholarship ... Read more

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  • From Midnight to Dawn

    The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad

    From Midnight to Dawn presents compelling portraits of the men and women who established the Underground Railroad and traveled it to find new lives in Canada. Evoking the turmoil and controversies of the time, Tobin illuminates the historic events that forever connected American and Canadian history by giving us the true stories behind well-known figures such as Harriet Tubman and John Brown. She ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Gateway to Freedom

    The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

    by Eric Foner ...
    The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom.A deeply entrenched ... Read more

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  • Escape on the Pearl

    The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad

    The largest mass escape of fugitive slaves in American history is thrillingly chronicled in this "readable . . . valuable account" ( Kirkus).On the evening of April 15, 1848, nearly eighty enslaved Americans attempted one of history's most audacious escapes. Setting sail from Washington, D.C., on a schooner named the Pearl, the fugitives began a daring 225-mile journey to freedom in the North—and ... Read more

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  • The Agitators

    Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights

    Series series Bestselling Women's History
    **An Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, Christopher Award Winner, and Chautauqua Prize Finalist!“Engrossing... examines the major events of the mid 19th century through the lives of three key figures in the abolitionist and women’s rights movements.” —SmithsonianFrom the executive editor of The New Yorker, a riveting, provocative, and revelatory history told through the story of three women ... Read more

    $15.99 USD