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  • The Untold Story of Frankie Silver

    Was She Unjustly Hanged?

    by Perry Deane Young ...
    Three days before Christmas in 1831, Frankie Silver killed her husband, Charles Silver, with an axe and burned his body in the fireplace. Author Perry Deane Young, whose ancestors were involved in the case, began collecting material about it as a teenager. As a college student, he was astounded to learn that most of what he had been told was actually false. Abused by her husband, Frankie killed in ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Forbidden Fruit

    Love Stories from the Underground Railroad

    by Betty DeRamus ...
    Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold tales of ordinary men and women who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to be together**—**and defy a system that categorized blacks not only as servants, but as property.In the true love stories of Forbidden Fruit, you will meet sixteen couples who fought for love—love between slaves, between slaves and masters, and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Stolen Childhood

    Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Wilma King ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    An updated edition of the classic study that took "an enormous step toward filling some of the voids in the literature of slavery" ( The Washington Post Book World).One of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-century America. This enlarged and revised edition reflects the abundance of new scholarship ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rose, a Woman of Colour

    A Slave's Struggle for Freedom in the Courts of Kentucky

    by Arnold Taylor ...
    This book is the true story of Rose Gatliff, a slave who used the courts of Kentucky to wrest freedom from those who held her family in bondage. Despite being held in a slave State and despite her rights being judged by white, slaveholding men, she prevailed. Her persistence, determination and intelligence made her, as one witness phrased it, "the best lawyer" her family had.This is also the story ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Help Me to Find My People

    The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery

    by Heather Andrea Williams ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant “information wanted” advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers back to devastating moments of family separation during slavery when people were sold away from parents, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Freedom by Any Means

    Con Games, Voodoo Schemes, True Love and Lawsuits on the Underground Railroad

    by Betty DeRamus ...
    Following up Betty DeRamus’s Essence bestselling Forbidden Fruit, Freedom by Any Means follows the story of extraordinary acts of courage and love by Blacks in the American slave era with beautifully written and inspiring stories of how slaves used the law**—against all odds—**to gain freedom for themselv... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Lost Rocks: The Dare Stones and the Unsolved Mystery of Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony

    by David La Vere ...
    What if the 1587 Lost Colony of Roanoke was not lost? What if the survivors left Roanoke Island North Carolina and found their way to Georgia? That is the scenario scholars contemplated when a series of engraved stones were found in the 1930's. The first found near the Chowan River in North Carolina claimed that Eleanor Dare and a few other settlers had made their way inland after an Indian attack ... Read more

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  • The Family Tree

    A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth

    by Karen Branan ...
    In the tradition of Slaves in the Family, the provocative true account of the hanging of four black people by a white lynch mob in 1912—written by the great-granddaughter of the sheriff charged with protecting them.Harris County, Georgia, 1912. A white man, the beloved nephew of the county sheriff, is shot dead on the porch of a black woman. Days later, the sheriff sanctions the lynching of a ... Read more

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  • Charles Manson The Ancestry Of A Mass Murderer

    by Robert Grey Reynolds ...
    Charles Manson has been studied from many perspectives by authors, especially those that have looked closely at the mind control he has used to manipulate his followers. I have read with avid interest a number of these works over the years. My book begins with his birth certificate, which was difficult for researchers to gain access to because of the misspelling of his mother's surname. After ... Read more

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  • Pioneer Families of Colonial America: From Native Americans and the Mayflower to the Irish Canadians

    by MaryAnn Rizzo ...
    A genealogical study of the Doty and Kelly families originally done by John Hubert Doty and updated by MaryAnn Doty Rizzo. Includes historical information and documentation. The Doty family goes back to the Mayflower. The Kelly family are Irish Canadians. Other families include: King, Miller, Force, Logue, Logsdon, Cavanee, and Dial. Some of these families have connections to George Washington. ... Read more

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  • Allendale on the Savannah - Revisited

    by Jim Bryan ...
    Allendale on the Savannah - Revisited is based on an earlier work and is a historical account of the settlement and development of Allendale County, SC from the days of early Spanish explorers through 1970.It is based on the work of my Great Aunt, Alexania Easterling Lawton and Mrs. Minnie Reeves Wilson which was published in 1970. This work attempts to correct some of the mistakes in the original ... Read more

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  • The Genealogy of Herman Webster Mudgett

    by Robert Grey Reynolds ...
    Herman Webster Mudgett was responsible for the deaths of as many as 200 people. Most of them were murdered during the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, which was held in Chicago. Mudgett confessed to 27 of these killings. So far as I know there has not been a published account of Herman Mudgett's ancestry. The man who became Dr. Henry Horton Holmes came to Chicago from New England. His family ... Read more

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