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"A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of color who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the colonial West Indies. Born into slavery on the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat, Doll bought her freedom—and that of her sister and her mother—from her Irish planter father and built a legacy of wealth and power as an entrepreneur,...
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"By the good offices of Riptide Publishing, KJ Charles's new Entertainment WANTED, A GENTLEMAN Or, Virtue Over-Rated. The grand romance of Mr. Martin St. Vincent . . . a Merchant with a Mission, also a Problem, Mr. Theodore Swann . . . a humble Scribbler and Advertiser for Love."--Page [4] of cover.
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1860. Persimmon “Persy” Wilson is sold to Sweetmore, a Louisiana sugar plantation, alongside a light-skinned house slave named Chloe. Their deep and instant connection fueled a love affair and inspired plans to escape Wilson, their owner, who claimed Chloe as his concubine. On the eve of the Union Army's attack on New Orleans, Wilson shot Persy, and fled with Chloe and his other slaves to Texas. Determined to reunite with his lost love, Persy's...
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Crossing Ebenezer Creek volume 1
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When Mariah and her young brother Zeke are suddenly freed from slavery, they set out on Sherman's long march through Georgia during the Civil War. Mariah wants to believe that the brutalities of slavery are behind them forever and that freedom lies ahead. When she meets Caleb, an enigmatic young black man also on the march, Mariah soon finds herself dreaming not only of a new life, but of true love as well. But even hope comes at a cost, and as the...
26) Freedom's school
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Hungry for learning, Lizzie and her brother Paul attend a new school built for freed slaves.
27) Freeman: a novel
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"At the end of the Civil War, an escaped slave first returns to his old plantation and then walks across the ravaged South in search of his lost wife"--Provided by the publisher.
28) Mustard seed
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"Oberlin, Ohio, 1868. Lisbeth Johnson was born into privilege in the antebellum South. Jordan Freedman was born a slave to Mattie, Lisbeth's beloved nurse. The women have an unlikely bond deeper than friendship. Three years after the Civil War, Lisbeth and Mattie are tending their homes and families while Jordan, an aspiring suffragette, teaches at an integrated school. When Lisbeth discovers that her father is dying, she's summoned back to the Virginia...
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Little black girl lost volume 5
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Lauren Renee Bouvier, now wealthy and free from slavery courtesy of her plantation owner's will, is torn between revenge for the murders of innocent slaves and the pursuit of the American dream in 1792 New Orleans.
30) Spring will come
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Bregdan Chronicles volume 3
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"As her beloved city of Richmond is transformed into a deadly Civil War battlefield, spirited Carrie Cromwell puts her medical skills to work in a Confederate hospital. While she fights to save unknown soldiers, the one she cares about the most is lost to her. Meanwhile in the North, Carrie's dear friends, former slaves Rose and Moses have found freedom at last -- only to be separated by war. Can Moses, now a Union spy, elude those who are searching...
31) Willow
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In 1848 Willow, a fifteen-year-old educated slave girl, faces an inconceivable choice -- between bondage and freedom, family and love -- as free born, seventeen-year-old Cato, a black man, takes it upon himself to sneak as many fugitive slaves to freedom as he can on the Mason-Dixon Line.
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Bregdan Chronicles volume 6
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"America struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of Lincoln's assassination. Promises will be broken, and everyone you have grown to love will be asked to pay a high price to make freedom for the slaves more than just a mockery. Robert fights to emerge from the darkness as Carrie risks everything to bring him back to her. Moses is offered the opportunity of a lifetime, while Rose returns to her roots with a dream that will change everything. Matthew...
38) Exodus
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"Maya was Colored royalty. She was a legend, a dark secret among white plantation owners but everyone knew that this slave woman was the reason behind the success of one of the largest and richest plantations in the Carolinas. Now that slavery is over what will Maya do next?" --
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