| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xiii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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age Children |
| Summary |
Describes slavery in the United States, the harsh conditions under which slaves lived, the active and passive resistance with which they fought for their rights, the revolts, and the involvement of slaves in the Civil War. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-187) and index. |
| Contents |
Fighting bondage on land and sea: The First rebels -- Daily toil, perilous struggle: A Troublesome property -- Battle for family and knowledge -- Disrupting plantation life -- Industrial and urban resistance -- Music for Jesus, lyrics of freedom -- Flight and revolt: Runaways and maroons -- Revolts in the Age of Revolution -- Nineteenth-century slave rebels -- Fiery abolitionists -- Marching to freedom: The Slaves' Civil War -- Bayonets of freedom -- From slave liberation ... to protest. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer. |
| Subject |
Slave rebellions -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
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Slave rebellions. |
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United States. |
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Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Juvenile literature.
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Southern States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1775-1865 |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans -- Juvenile literature.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American -- Juvenile literature.
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American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) |
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African Americans. |
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Military participation -- African American. |
| Chronological Term |
1775 - 1865 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Juvenile works.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Katz, William Loren. Breaking the chains. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International Pub. Group, 1990 (OCoLC)644242874 |
| ISBN |
0689314930 |
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9780689314933 |
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