African American History:
Underground Railroad and African American Slave Resistance
Famed rebellions in African American history.
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Breaking the Chains: African-American Slave Resistance by Katz, William Loren
Notes: Describes the harsh condition of slavery in the United States and various revolts and resistance movements as African-Americans fought for their freedom and their rights.
ISBN: 0689819196
Published: 1998
Callnumber: j975.0049 K159B2
Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom by Myers, Walter Dean
Notes: The 1839 revolt of Africans aboard the slave ship Amistad, their landing in the United States, followed by their arrest for piracy and murder, and trials which ended in their successful acquittal by the United States Supreme Court.
ISBN: 0525459707
Published: 1998
Callnumber: j973.0496 M9992A
The Struggle for Freedom: African American Slave Resistance by Wepman, Dennis
Notes: The stories of the heroes and martyrs who found for freedom from slavery.
ISBN: 081603270X
Callnumber: 306.362 W49s
Cinque of the Amistad and the Slave Trade in World History by Worth, Richard
Notes: Cinque, a kidnapped African sold into slavery in Cuba, leads his fellow captives in a revolt on the slave ship Amistad, only to find himself a prisoner once more, as a group of opponents of slavery, led by ex-President John Quincy Adams, fight for the Africans' freedom in court.
ISBN: 0766014606
Callnumber: 326.0973 C492w
The Amistad Slave Revolt and American Abolition by Zeinert, Karen
Notes: The famous story of the revolt aboard the slave ship Amistad, and the landmark trial before the United States Supreme Court.
ISBN: 0208024387
Callnumber: j326.0973 Z35a
Amistad Rising: A Story of Freedom by Chambers, Veronica
Notes: A fictional account of the 1839 revolt of Africans aboard the slave ship Amistad and the subsequent legal case argued before the Supreme Court in 1841 by former president John Quincy Adams.
ISBN: 0152018034
Callnumber: jFiction
Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts by McKissack, Patricia C. and Frederick
Notes: The true stories of brave African-American rebels who fought against slavery, including Cinque, who pleaded his case before the Supreme Court, to Nat Turner, who carried out one of the greatest revolts in history.
ISBN: 0590457357
Callnumber: j970.0049M217r
Nat Turner and the Virginia Slave Revolt by Neshama, Rivvy
Notes: This book examines the life of Nat Turner and the events leading up to the slave rebellion he led in 1831.
ISBN: 1567667449
Callnumber: j975.5552 T855n
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion in American History by Edwards, Judith
Notes: In 1831, Nat Turner, a slave and preacher, believing a divine inspiration that God wanted him to free the slaves, led a major slave revolt.
ISBN: 0766013022
Callnumber: j975.5503 T855e
Denmark Vesey by Robertson, David
Notes: The life of the African-American freedom fighter who planned the largest slave revolt in 1822 and the aftermath of the failed insurrection, including Vesey's trial and execution.
ISBN: 067944288X
Callnumber: 975.7915 C631r