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Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859) is an autobiographical novel by Harriet E. Wilson. Published anonymously, Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black is considered the first novel by an African American to be published in North America, having been rediscovered by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in 1981. Based on Wilson's own experience as a free black forced into indentured servitude in New Hampshire, the novel critiques...
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American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
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105 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
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English
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Marie-Grace Gardner, a doctor's daughter who has just returned to her native New Orleans in 1853, makes friends with Cčile Rey, whose prosperous family are free people of color, and is persuaded to change places with her at separate Mardi Gras balls.
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American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
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91 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
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English
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When Marie-Grace discovers a baby outside her father's office and a slave catcher claims the boy, she helps place him at a white orphanage where she becomes a volunteer, as her friendship with Cčile grows and she hears rumors of yellow fever.
5) Meet Cčile
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American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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109 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
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English
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Cčile Rey, whose prosperous family are free people of color, makes friends with Marie-Grace Gardner, a doctor's daughter who has just returned to her native New Orleans in 1853, and persuades her to change places at their separate Mardi Gras balls.
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Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
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88 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
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English
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As the yellow fever epidemic continues to ravage New Orleans and the orphanages become more crowded, Marie-Grace and Cčile help with the orphans, until Marie-Grace learns that her Uncle Luc's fiancě, Mademoiselle Ocǎne, has fallen ill.
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American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
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94 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
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English
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Cčile is enjoying her older brother Armand's return from France and her growing friendship with Marie-Grace, with whom she volunteers at an orphanage, until the yellow fever epidemic theatening New Orleans strikes her own household.
9) Cčile's gift
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American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
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95 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
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English
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Now that the yellow fever epidemic is over, the people of New Orleans raise money to care for the orphans, and Cčile seeks to discover something special she can to do help.
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Clearfield
Pub. Date
2017.
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263 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
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English
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This book uses the Baltimore City Tax Assessor's Ledger, 1813, and the ledgers for 1818, which the authors researched in their original format at the Baltimore City Archives. They have supplemented this material with data from city directories, census records, and books and journal articles about nineteenth century Baltimore and Maryland. Though they note that there are inconsistencies and discrepancies, many due to phonetic spelling or indecipherable...
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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404 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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In this history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century and into the Jim Crow era, the practical ways couples adopted, adapted, or rejected white Christian ideas of marriage--setting their own standards for conjugal relationships under conditions of uncertainty and cruelty--are examined.
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Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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354 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
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English
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"Although slavery was outlawed in the northern states in 1827, the illegal slave trade continued in the one place modern readers would least expect, the streets and ports of America's great northern metropolis: New York City. In 'The Kidnapping Club,' historian Jonathan Daniel Wells takes readers to a rapidly changing city rife with contradiction, where social hierarchy clashed with a rising middle class, Black citizens jostled for an equal voice...
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"Paul Polgar recovers the racially inclusive vision of America's first abolition movement. In showcasing the activities of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, the New York Manumission Society, and their African American allies during the post-Revolutionary and early national eras, he unearths this coalition's comprehensive agenda for black freedom and equality"--
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