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Things past telling : a novel / by Williams, Sheila(Sheila J.),author.;
"Things Past Telling is a remarkable historical epic that charts one unforgettable woman's journey across an ocean of years as vast as the Atlantic that will forever separate her from her homeland. Born in West Africa in the mid-eighteenth century, Maryam Prescilla Grace--a.k.a "Momma Grace" will live a long, wondrous life marked by hardship, oppression, opportunity, and love. Though she will be "gifted" various names, her birth name is known to her alone. Over the course of 100-plus years, she survives capture, enslavement by several property owners, the Atlantic crossing when she is only eleven years of age, and a brief stint as a pirate's ward, acting as both a spy and a translator. Maryam learns midwifery from a Caribbean-born wise woman, whose "craft" combines curated techniques and medicines from African, Indigenous, and European women. Those midwifery skills allow her to sometimes transcend the racial and class barriers of her enslavement, as she walks the razor's edge trying to balance the lives and health of her own people with the cruel economic mandates of the slave holders, who view infants born in bondage not as flesh-and-blood children but as investment property. Throughout her triumphant and tumultuous life Maryam gains and loses her homeland, her family, her culture, her husband, her lovers, and her children. Yet as the decades pass, this tenacious woman never loses her sense of self. Inspired by a 112-year-old woman the author discovered in an 1870 U.S. Federal census report for Ohio, loosely based on the author's real-life female ancestors, spanning more than a hundred years, from the mid-eighteen-century to the end of America's Civil War, and spanning across the globe, from what is now southern Nigeria to the islands of the Caribbean to North America and the land bordering the Ohio River, Things Past Telling is a breathtaking story of a past that lives on in all of us, and a life that encompasses the best--and worst--of our humanity."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Epic fiction.; African American women; African Americans; Midwives; Slaves; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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It was dark there all the time : Sophia Burthen and the legacy of slavery in Canada / by Hunter, Andrew,1963-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."'My parents were slaves in New York State. My master's sons-in-law ... came into the garden where my sister and I were playing among the currant bushes, tied their handkerchiefs over our mouths, carried us to a vessel, put us in the hold, and sailed up the river. I know not how far nor how long--it was dark there all the time.' These words, recorded by Benjamin Drew in 1855, provide Sophia Burthen's account of her arrival as an enslaved person into what is now Canada sometime in the late 18th century. In It Was Dark There All the Time, writer and curator Andrew Hunter builds on the testimony of Drew's interview to piece together Burthen's life, while reckoning with the legacy of whiteness and colonialism in the recording of her story. In so doing, Hunter demonstrates the role that the slave trade played in pre-Confederation Canada and its continuing impact on contemporary Canadian society. Evocatively written with sharp, incisive observations and illustrated with archival images and contemporary works of art, It Was Dark There All the Time offers a necessary correction to the prevailing perception of Canada as a place unsullied by slavery and its legacy"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Burthen, Sophia.; Freedmen; Slave trade; Slavery; Slaves; Slaves; Slaves; Women slaves; Imperialism; Postcolonialism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Underground Railroad : a novel / by Whitehead, Colson,1969-author.;
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Women slaves; Slaves; Fugitive slaves; Slavery; Slave trade; Plantation life; Underground Railroad;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The Underground Railroad [sound recording] : a novel / by Whitehead, Colson,1969-author.; Turpin, Bahni,narrator.; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.;
Read by Bahni Turpin.A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Women slaves; Slaves; Fugitive slaves; Slavery; Slave trade; Plantation life; Underground Railroad;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The oldest student : how Mary Walker learned to read / by Hubbard, Rita L.; Mora, Oge.;
"A picture book biography sharing the inspiring and incredible true story of the nation's oldest student, Mary Walker, who learned to read at the age of 116"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Walker, Mary, 1848-1969; Women slaves; Freedmen; Illiterate persons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Testimony of an Irish slave girl / by McCafferty, Kate;
Subjects: Young women; Irish; Indentured servants; Slave insurrections; Historical fiction;
© c2001., Viking,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Never caught : the Washingtons' relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, Ona Judge / by Dunbar, Erica Armstrong,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Judge, Oney.; Washington, George, 1732-1799; Washington, Martha, 1731-1802; African American women; Fugitive slaves; Slavery; Slaves;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The life and times of Hannah Crafts : the true story of The Bondwoman's Narrative / by Hecimovich, Gregg A.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a preface by Henry Louis Gates Jr. In 1857, a woman escaped enslavement on a North Carolina plantation and fled to a farm in New York. In hiding, she worked on a manuscript that would make her famous long after her death. The novel, The Bondwoman's Narrative, was first published in 2002 to great acclaim, but the author's identity remained unknown. Over a decade later, Professor Gregg Hecimovich unraveled the mystery of the author's name and, in The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts, he finally tells her story. In this remarkable biography, Hecimovich identifies the novelist as Hannah Bond “Crafts.” She was not only the first known Black woman to compose a novel but also an extraordinarily gifted artist who honed her literary skills in direct opposition to a system designed to deny her every measure of humanity. After escaping to New York, the author forged a new identity--as Hannah Crafts--to make sense of a life fractured by slavery. Hecimovich establishes the case for authorship of The Bondwoman's Narrative by examining the lives of Hannah Crafts's friends and contemporaries, including the five enslaved women whose experiences form part of her narrative. By drawing on the lives of those she knew in slavery, Crafts summoned into her fiction people otherwise stolen from history. At once a detective story, a literary chase, and a cultural history, The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts discovers a tale of love, friendship, betrayal, and violence set against the backdrop of America's slide into Civil War."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Crafts, Hannah.; African American women novelists; Enslaved women; Fugitive slaves; Autobiographical fiction, American;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Master slave husband wife : an epic journey from slavery to freedom / by Woo, Ilyon,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Presents the remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled white man and William posing as "his" slave.
Subjects: Biographies.; Craft, Ellen.; Craft, William.; Abolitionists; Antislavery movements; Fugitive slaves; Fugitive slaves; Racially mixed women; Slaves;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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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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