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Antebellum [videorecording] / by Huston, Jack,1982-actor.; Malone, Jena,1984-actor.; Monáe, Janelle,actor.; Sidibe, Gabourey,actor.; Renz, Christopher,screenwriter,film director,film producer.; Bush, Gerard,screenwriter,film director,film producer.; Richardson, Marque,1985-actor.; Chirisa, Tongayi Arnold,actor.; Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Music by Nate Wonder and Roman Gianarthur ; editor, John Axelrad ; director of photography, Pedro Luque Briozzo.Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone, Jack Huston, Kiersey Clemons, Gabourey Sidibe, Marque Richardson, Tongayi Chirisa.Eden (Janelle Monáe) came to understand the worst degradation that a plantation slave in the Confederate South could know. African-American academic Veronica Henley (Monáe, again), on the road in Louisiana to promote her latest book, lived a happy and comfortable modern-day existence. Their fates would indeed prove to be intertwined--but in the last way you'd expect--in this socially charged shocker.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.MPAA rating: R.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Horror films.; Feature films.; Women authors; Kidnapping; Slavery; Women slaves; Plantations;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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River sing me home / by Shearer, Eleanor,author.;
"Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with an ending ... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come into effect. The cries of joy fall silent when he announces that they are no longer his slaves; they are now his apprentices. No one can leave. They must work for him for another six years. Freedom is just another name for the life they have always lived. So Rachel runs. Away from Providence, she begins a desperate search to find her children-the five who survived birth and were sold. Are any of them still alive? Rachel has to know. The grueling, dangerous journey takes her from Barbados then, by river, deep into the forest of British Guiana and finally across the sea to Trinidad. She is driven on by the certainty that a mother cannot be truly free without knowing what has become of her children, even if the answer is more than she can bear. These are the stories of Mary Grace, Micah, Thomas Augustus, Cherry Jane and Mercy. But above all this is the story of Rachel and the extraordinary lengths to which a mother will go to find her children ... and her freedom"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Mother and child; Slaves;
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Kindred / by Butler, Octavia E.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Science fiction.; African American women; Slaveholders; Time travel; Slavery; Slaves;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The woman king [videorecording] / by Boyega, John,actor.; Davis, Viola,1965-actor.; Fiennes-Tiffin, Hero,actor.; Lynch, Lashana,1987-actor.; Prince-Bythewood, Gina,film director.; Stevens, Dana,1963-screenwriter.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Viola Davis, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, John Boyega, Lashana Lynch.The remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a ferocity unlike anything the world has ever seen. Inspired by true events, it follows the emotionally epic journey of General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and prepares them for battle against an enemy determined to obliterate their way of life. Some things are worth fighting for.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: PG-13.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Historical films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Gezo, King of Dahomey, -1858; Female friendship; Fon (African people); Man-woman relationships; Slave trade; Slave traders; Women generals; Women soldiers; Women;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Sunflower sisters : a novel / by Kelly, Martha Hall,author.;
Union nurse Georgeanna Woolsey travels with her sister to Gettysburg, where they cross paths with a slave-turned-army conscript and her cruel plantation mistress.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Women slaves; Nurses; Sisters;
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Sunflower sisters [sound recording] : a novel / by Kelly, Martha Hall,author,narrator.; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.;
Read by multiple narrators, with a note read by the author.Union nurse Georgeanna Woolsey travels with her sister to Gettysburg, where they cross paths with a slave-turned-army conscript and her cruel plantation mistress.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Nurses; Sisters; Women slaves;
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The survivors of the Clotilda : the lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade / by Durkin, Hannah,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors-the last documented survivors of any slave ship-whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Clotilda (Ship); African Americans; Enslaved persons; Enslaved persons; Human trafficking; Slave trade; West Africans;
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The blackbirder / by Nelson, James L.;
Subjects: Slave insurrections; Pirates;
© c2001., HarperCollins Pub.,
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The bird and the blade / by Bannen, Megan,author.;
As a slave in the Kipchak Khanate, Jinghua has lost everything: her home, her family, her freedom. She becomes an unlikely conspirator in the escape of Prince Khalaf and his father from their enemies across the vast Mongol Empire. Jinghua hatches a scheme to use the Kipchaks' exile to return home. Her feelings evolve into a hopeless love, as Khalaf seeks to restore his kingdom by forging a marriage alliance with Turandokht, the daughter of the Great Khan. All suitors must solve three impossible riddles to win her hand-- and if they fail, they die. -- adapted from jacket.
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Fiction.; Historical fiction.; History.; Juvenile works.; Science fiction.; Young adult works.; Historical fiction.; Science fiction.; Historical fiction.; Science fiction.; Slavery; Secrecy; Kings and rulers; Princes; Riddles; Mongols; Secrets; Slavery; Kings, queens, rulers, etc.; Kings and rulers; Interpersonal relations.; Secrecy.; Slaves.; Slaves.; Love.; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Fantasy / Historical.; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Historical / Ancient Civilizations.; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Romance / Historical.; Kings and rulers.; Mongols.; Princes.; Riddles.; Secrecy.; Slavery.;
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Born in Blackness : Africa, Africans, and the making of the modern world, 1471 to the Second World War / by French, Howard W.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy in America, and the fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals all grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "darkest" continent. Born in Blackness dramatically retrieves the lives of major African historical figures whose stories have been repeatedly etiolated and erased over centuries, from unimaginably rich medieval African emperors who traded with Asia; to Kongo sovereigns who heroically battled seventeenth-century European powers; to ex-slaves who liberated Haitians from bondage. In doing so, French tells the story of gold, tobacco, sugar, and cotton-and the greatest "commodity" of all, the millions of people brought in chains from Africa to the New World, whose reclaimed histories fundamentally help explain our present world"--
Subjects: African diaspora; History, Modern.; Slave trade;
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