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African American History – Slave Life
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Archaeology & Slave Life at Mount Vernon
Item #: 3762
This portfolio includes student readings, diagrams, maps,and other relevant documents. A teacher's guide with reading activities included.
Price: $38.00
Sarah Johnson’s Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of An American Shrine
Item #: 14531
The life stories of Sarah Johnson, her family and her friends create a portrait of Mount Vernon’s operation during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Price: $25.00
Slavery at the Home of George Washington
Item #: 6714
This highly-readable selection of articles focuses on Washington's changing attitudes toward the institution of slavery. Edited by Philip J. Schwarz.
Price: $9.95
Before Freedom: When I Just Can Remember
Item #: 29363
Stories told by those who endured slavery in America. Edited by Belinda Hurmence.
Price: $8.95
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By the Work of Their Hands Studies in Afro-American Folklife
Item #: 66605
Essays about "black Americans…an account often written not with words but with things made by the work of their hands." John Michael Vlach (ed.)
Price: $18.50
Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South
Item #: 28910
The many misconceptions of black female slaves and the struggles they endured to overcome injustices. By Deborah Gray White.
Price: $15.95
The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom (1750-1925)
Item #: 34686
A study of the Afro-American family 1750-1925, and the origins and early development of Afro-American culture. By Herbert G. Gutman.
Price: $24.00
The Black Phalanx: African American Soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War.
Item #: 66019
By Joseph T. Wilson. From the eyes of one soldier, this book provides accurate and complete accounts of African American contributions in these wars.
Price: $16.95
The Slave Ship: A Human History
Item #: 14933
Winner of the 2008 George Washington Book Prize. An intimate human history of the British and American slave ships of the 18th century.
Price: $27.95
The Negro in the Civil War
Item #: 34082
By Benjamin Quarles. Originally written in 1953, this volume tells the powerful story of black Americans in the Civil War.
Price: $13.95
The Negro in Virginia
Item #: 79251
Part of the Virginia Writers' Project of the WPA, this compilation provides a look at the lives of Virginians from slavery to the Great Depression.
Price: $12.95
We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century
Item #: 28951
Interviews, letters, diaries, and newspaper accounts present the voices of black women who lived in the 19th century. Edited by Dorothy Sterling.
Price: $16.95
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