Mr. Wilson's Slavery Books Fiction
November 12, 2007
| These books are
available in the Farragut School Library. Annotations courtesy of OPAC, Follett, Inc. |
Fic Arm HS
Armstrong, Jennifer. Steal away. In 1855 two thirteen-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story forty-one years later to two similar young girls.
Fic Bea HS
Beatty, Patricia. Jayhawker. In the early years of the Civil War, teenage Kansan farm boy Lije Tulley becomes a Jayhawker, an abolitionist raider freeing slaves from the neighboring state of Missouri, and then goes undercover there as a spy.
Fic Ber
Berry, James. Ajeemah and his son. A father and his eighteen-year-old son are each affected differently by their experiences as slaves in Jamaica in the early nineteenth century.
Fic Col
Collier, James Lincoln. War comes to Willy Freeman. A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears.
Fic Col
Collier, James Lincoln. Jump ship to freedom. In 1787, a fourteen-year-old slave, anxious to buy freedom for himself and his mother, escapes from his dishonest master and tries to find help in cashing the soldier's notes received by his father for fighting in the Revolution.
Fic Fri
Fritz, Jean. Brady. A young Pennsylvania boy takes part in the pre-Civil War anti-slavery activities.
Fic Hah HS
Hahn, Mary Downing. Promises to the dead. Twelve-year-old Jesse leaves his home on Maryland's Eastern Shore to help a young runaway slave find a safe haven in the early days of the Civil War.
Fic Hes
Hesse, Karen. A light in the storm : the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin. In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.
Fic Hur HS
Hurmence, Belinda. Tancy. New York : Clarion Books, c1984. At the end of the Civil War, a young house slave on a small North Carolina plantation searches for her mother who was mysteriously sold when Tancy was a baby.
Fic McK
McKissack, Pat. A picture of freedom : the diary of Clotee, a slave girl. In 1859 twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.
Fic ODe
O'Dell, Scott. My name is not Angelica. Relates the experiences of a young Senegalese girl brought as a slave to the Danish-owned Caribbean island of St. John as she participates in the slave revolt of 1733-1734.
Fic Pau
Paulsen, Gary. Nightjohn. Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.
Fic Pau HS
Paulsen, Gary. Sarny, a life remembered. Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl whom Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other Blacks and lived a full life until age ninety-four.
Fic Ree
Reeder, Carolyn. Across the lines. Edward, the son of a white plantation owner, and his black house servant and friend Simon witness the siege of Petersburg during the Civil War.
Fic Rin
Rinaldi, Ann. Numbering all the bones. Thirteen-year-old Eulinda, a house slave on a Georgia plantation in 1864, turns to Clara Barton, the eventual founder of the American Red Cross, for help in finding her brother Neddy who ran away to join the Northern war effort and is rumored to be at Andersonville Prison.
Fic Rin HS
Rinaldi, Ann. Mine eyes have seen. In the summer of 1859, fifteen-year-old Annie travels to the Maryland farm where her father, John Brown, is secretly assembling his provisional army prior to their raid on the United States arsenal at nearby Harpers Ferry.
Fic Rin HS
Rinaldi, Ann. Wolf by the ears. Harriet Hemings, rumored to be the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, one of his black slaves, struggles with the problems facing her--to escape from the velvet cage that is Monticello, or to stay, and thus remain a slave.
Fic Sch HS
Schwartz, Virginia Frances. Send one angel down. . A young slave tries to hide the horrors of slavery from his younger cousin, a light-skinned slave who is the daughter of the plantation owner.
Fic Sto
Stolz, Mary. A ballad of the Civil War. Weary of the war, a Union lieutenant recalls his life with his twin brother on their family's Virginia plantation and the events that led them to fight on different sides in the Civil War.
Fic Sto HS
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's cabin. The novel some give credit for starting the Civil War.
Fic Swi HS
Swift, Hildegarde Hoyt. The railroad to freedom : a story of the Civil War.
Fic Woo
Woodruff, Elvira. Dear Austin : letters from the Underground Railroad. In 1853, in letters to his older brother, eleven-year-old Levi describes his adventures in the Pennsylvania countryside with his African-American friend Jupiter and his experiences with the Underground Railroad.
Fic Wye
Wyeth, Sharon Dennis. Freedom's wings : Corey's Underground Railroad diary, book one. A nine-year-old slave keeps a diary of his journey to freedom along the Underground Railroad in 1857.
Fic Yat
Yates, Elizabeth. Amos Fortune, free man. The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.
