Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House

Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House
Elizabeth Keckley (Author)
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This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.

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• Published on: 2013-01-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.84" h x 7.87" w x .28" l, .59 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 126 pages

Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves

Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves
by Henry Wiencek
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Is there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes. Master of the Mountain, Henry Wiencek’s eloquent, persuasive book—based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Jefferson’s papers—opens up a huge, poorly understood dimension of Jefferson’s world. We must, Wiencek suggests, follow the money.

So far, historians have offered only easy irony or paradox to explain this extraordinary Founding Father who was an emancipationist in his youth and then recoiled from his own inspiring rhetoric and equivocated about slavery; who enjoyed his renown as a revolutionary leader yet kept some of his own children as slaves. But Wiencek’s Jefferson is a man of business and public affairs who makes a success of his debt-ridden plantation thanks to what he calls the “silent profits” gained from his slaves—and thanks to a skewed moral universe that he and thousands of others readily inhabited. We see Jefferson taking out a slave-equity line of credit with a Dutch bank to finance the building of Monticello and deftly creating smoke screens when visitors are dismayed by his apparent endorsement of a system they thought he’d vowed to overturn. It is not a pretty story. Slave boys are whipped to make them work in the nail factory at Monticello that pays Jefferson’s grocery bills. Parents are divided from children—in his ledgers they are recast as money—while he composes theories that obscure the dynamics of what some of his friends call “a vile commerce.”

Many people of Jefferson’s time saw a catastrophe coming and tried to stop it, but not Jefferson. The pursuit of happiness had been badly distorted, and an oligarchy was getting very rich. Is this the quintessential American story?

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• Published on: 2012-10-16
• Released on: 2012-10-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x 1.14" w x 5.98" l, 1.32 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality Without Racism

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The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality Without Racism
Nancy Ditomaso (Author)

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African Americans

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• Published on: 2013-04-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• 384 pages

The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America

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The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America
James T. Patterson (Author)
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Privilege, Power, and Difference

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Privilege, Power, and Difference
Allan G. Johnson (Author)
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African Americans

This brief book is a groundbreaking tool for students and non-students alike to examine systems of privilege and difference in our society. Written in an accessible, conversational style, Johnson links theory with engaging examples in ways that enable readers to see the underlying nature and consequences of privilege and their connection to it. This extraordinarily successful book has been used across the country, both inside and outside the classroom, to shed light on issues of power and privilege.

• Rank: #1873 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.98" h x .39" w x 5.87" l, .62 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 184 pages

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
Eric Foner (Author)
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“A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston Globe

Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see Lincoln, a pragmatic politician grounded in principle, deftly navigating the dynamic politics of antislavery, secession, and civil war. Lincoln's greatness emerges from his capacity for moral and political growth. 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations; 3 maps

• Rank: #10174 in Books
• Published on: 2011-09-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.30" h x 1.20" w x 5.50" l, .89 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

The Beast in Florida: A History of Anti-Black Violence

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The Beast in Florida: A History of Anti-Black Violence
by Marvin Dunn

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A symbolic embodiment of racial violence and hatred, “The Beast” openly prowled the nation between the Civil War and the civil rights movement. The reasons it appeared varied, with psychological, political, and economic dynamics all playing a part, but the outcome was always brutal--if not deadly.

            From the bombing of Harriette and Harry T. Moore’s home on Christmas Day to Willie James Howard’s murder, from the Rosewood massacre to the Newberry Six lynchings, Marvin Dunn offers an encyclopedic catalogue of The Beast’s rampages in Florida. Instead of simply taking snapshots of incidents, Dunn provides context for a century’s worth of racial violence by examining communities over time. Crucial insights from interviews with descendants of both perpetrators and victims shape this study of Florida’s grim racial history. Rather than pointing fingers and placing blame, The Beast in Florida allows voices and facts to speak for themselves, facilitating a conversation on the ways in which racial violence changed both black and white lives forever.
            With this comprehensive and balanced look at racially motivated events, Dunn reveals the Sunshine State’s too-often forgotten—or intentionally hidden—past.  The result is a panorama of compelling human stories: its emergent dialogue challenges conceptions of what created and maintained The Beast.

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• Published on: 2013-02-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 6.14" h x .98" w x 6.30" l, .90 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America

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The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
by Jonathan Kozol
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Since the early 1980s, when the federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, segregation of black children has reverted to its highest level since 1968. In many inner-city schools, a stick-and-carrot method of behavioral control traditionally used in prisons is now used with students. Meanwhile, as high-stakes testing takes on pathological and punitive dimensions, liberal education has been increasingly replaced by culturally barren and robotic methods of instruction that would be rejected out of hand by schools that serve the mainstream of society.

Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.

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• Published on: 2006-08-01
• Released on: 2006-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.01" h x .92" w x 5.13" l, .69 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

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Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition

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Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition
by David Nirenberg

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A powerful history that shows anti-Judaism to be a central way of thinking in the Western tradition.

This incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational anti-Judaism is to the history of the West.

Questions of how we are Jewish and, more critically, how and why we are not have been churning within the Western imagination throughout its history. Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans; Christians and Muslims of every period; even the secularists of modernity have used Judaism in constructing their visions of the world. The thrust of this tradition construes Judaism as an opposition, a danger often from within, to be criticized, attacked, and eliminated. The intersections of these ideas with the world of power—the Roman destruction of the Second Temple, the Spanish Inquisition, the German Holocaust—are well known. The ways of thought underlying these tragedies can be found at the very foundation of Western history.

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• Published on: 2013-02-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.25" h x 6.10" w x .0" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 624 pages

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Mohsin Hamid
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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER

At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful encounter . . .

Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by the elite valuation firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his budding romance with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore.

But in the wake of september 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. And Changez’s own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love.

• Rank: #2696 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.99" h x .55" w x 5.39" l, .51 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 191 pages

Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority

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Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority
by Tom Burrell
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      “Black people are not dark-skinned white people,” says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are much more. They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against the odds, constantly making a way out of “No way!” At this pivotal point in history, the idea of black inferiority should have had a “Going-Out-of-Business Sale.” After all, Barack Obama has reached America’s Promised Land.

Yet, as Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority testifies, too many in black America are still wandering in the wilderness. In this powerful examination of “the greatest propaganda campaign of all time”—the masterful marketing of black inferiority, aka the BI Complex—Burrell poses ten disturbing questions that will make black people look in the mirror and ask why, nearly 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, so many blacks still think and act like slaves. Burrell’s acute awareness of the power of words and images to shift, shape, and change the collective consciousness has led him to connect the contemporary and historical dots that have brought us to this crossroads.

Brainwashed is not a reprimand—it is a call to action. It demands that we question our self-defeating attitudes and behaviors. Racism is not the issue; how we respond to media distortions and programmed self-hatred is the issue. It’s time to reverse the BI campaign with a globally based initiative that harnesses the power of new media and the wisdom of intergenerational coalitions. Provocative and powerful, Brainwashed dares to expose the wounds so that we, at last, can heal.

 

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• Published on: 2010-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .85" h x 5.96" w x 9.02" l, .95 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Divided We Fail: The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation

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Divided We Fail: The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation
by Sarah Garland

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Examines why school desegregation, despite its success in closing the achievement gap, was never embraced wholeheartedly in the black community as a remedy for racial inequality
 
In 2007, a court case originally filed in Louisville, Kentucky, was argued before the Supreme Court and officially ended the era of school desegregation— both changing how schools across America handle race and undermining the most important civil rights cases of the last century. Of course, this wasn’t the first federal lawsuit to challenge school desegregation. But it was the first—and only—one brought by African Americans. In Divided We Fail, journalist Sarah Garland deftly and sensitively tells the stories of the families and individuals who fought for and against desegregation. By reframing how we commonly understand race, education, and the history of desegregation, this timely and deeply relevant book will be an important contribution to the continued struggle toward true racial equality.
 

• Rank: #117029 in Books
• Published on: 2013-01-29
• Released on: 2013-01-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.30" h x .94" w x 6.31" l, 1.14 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Black Jews in Africa and the Americas (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures)

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Black Jews in Africa and the Americas (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures)
by Tudor Parfitt

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Black Jews in Africa and the Americas tells the fascinating story of how the Ashanti, Tutsi, Igbo, Zulu, Beta Israel, Maasai, and many other African peoples came to think of themselves as descendants of the ancient tribes of Israel. Pursuing medieval and modern European race narratives over a millennium in which not only were Jews cast as black but black Africans were cast as Jews, Tudor Parfitt reveals a complex history of the interaction between religious and racial labels and their political uses.

For centuries, colonialists, travelers, and missionaries, in an attempt to explain and understand the strange people they encountered on the colonial frontier, labeled an astonishing array of African tribes, languages, and cultures as Hebrew, Jewish, or Israelite. Africans themselves came to adopt these identities as their own, invoking their shared histories of oppression, imagined blood-lines, and common traditional practices as proof of a racial relationship to Jews.

Beginning in the post-slavery era, contacts between black Jews in America and their counterparts in Africa created powerful and ever-growing networks of black Jews who struggled against racism and colonialism. A community whose claims are denied by many, black Jews have developed a strong sense of who they are as a unique people. In Parfitt’s telling, forces of prejudice and the desire for new racial, redemptive identities converge, illuminating Jewish and black history alike in novel and unexplored ways.

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• Published on: 2013-02-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.53" h x 7.32" w x .43" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835

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Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835
by Jefferson Morley
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A gripping narrative history of the explosive events that drew together Francis Scott Key, Andrew Jackson, and an 18-year-old slave on trial for attempted murder.

In 1835, the city of Washington pulsed with change. As newly freed African Americans from the South poured in, free blacks outnumbered slaves for the first time. Radical notions of abolishing slavery circulated on the city's streets, and white residents were forced to confront new ideas of what the nation's future might look like.

On the night of August 4th, Arthur Bowen, an eighteen-year-old slave, stumbled into the bedroom where his owner, Anna Thornton, slept. He had an ax in the crook of his arm. An alarm was raised, and he ran away. Word of the incident spread rapidly, and within days, Washington's first race riot exploded, as whites fearing a slave rebellion attacked the property of the free blacks. Residents dubbed the event the “Snow-Storm," in reference to the central role of Beverly Snow, a flamboyant former slave turned successful restaurateur, who became the target of the mob's rage.

In the wake of the riot came two sensational criminal trials that gripped the city. Prosecuting both cases was none other than Francis Scott Key, a politically ambitious attorney famous for writing the lyrics to “The Star-Spangled Banner,” who few now remember served as the city's district attorney for eight years. Key defended slavery until the twilight's last gleaming, and pandered to racial fears by seeking capital punishment for Arthur Bowen. But in a surprise twist his prosecution was thwarted by Arthur's ostensible victim, Anna Thornton, a respected socialite who sought the help of President Andrew Jackson.

Ranging beyond the familiar confines of the White House and the Capitol, Snow-Storm in August delivers readers into an unknown chapter of American history with a textured and absorbing account of the racial secrets and contradictions that coursed beneath the freewheeling capital of a rising world power.

"Snow-Storm in August is the sort of book I most love to read: history so fresh it feels alive, yet introducing me to a time and place that I had little known or utterly misunderstood. After reading Jefferson Morley's vibrant account, one can never hear 'The Star-Spangled Banner' the same way again."
—David Maraniss, author of Barack Obama: The Story

• Rank: #46490 in Books
• Published on: 2012-07-03
• Released on: 2012-07-03
• Format: Deckle Edge
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.61" h x 1.39" w x 6.55" l, 1.56 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
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"Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton cannot vote because he, like many black men in the United States, has been labeled a felon and is currently on parole."

As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status--much like their grandparents before them.

In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community--and all of us--to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.

• Rank: #7509 in Books
• Published on: 2010-01-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.50" h x 6.50" w x 1.00" l, 1.27 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 290 pages

Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life

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Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
by Annette Lareau
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Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal Childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood today. Here are the frenetic families managing their children's hectic schedules of "leisure" activities; and here are families with plenty of time but little economic security. Lareau shows how middle-class parents, whether black or white, engage in a process of "concerted cultivation" designed to draw out children's talents and skills, while working-class and poor families rely on "the accomplishment of natural growth," in which a child's development unfolds spontaneously--as long as basic comfort, food, and shelter are provided. Each of these approaches to childrearing brings its own benefits and its own drawbacks. In identifying and analyzing differences between the two, Lareau demonstrates the power, and limits, of social class in shaping the lives of America's children.
The first edition of Unequal Childhoods was an instant classic, portraying in riveting detail the unexpected ways in which social class influences parenting in white and African American families. A decade later, Annette Lareau has revisited the same families and interviewed the original subjects to examine the impact of social class in the transition to adulthood.

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• Published on: 2011-09-us.html
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 9.02" h x 1.10" w x 5.98" l, 1.45 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

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Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
by Booker T. Washington
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This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.

• Rank: #47599 in Books
• Published on: 2012-12-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 10.00" h x 7.99" w x .31" l, .65 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 142 pages

When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection (Dover Thrift Editions)

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When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Norman R. Yetman
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African Americans

More than 2,000 interviews with former slaves, who, in blunt, simple language, provide often-startling first-person accounts of their lives in bondage. Includes some of the most detailed, compelling, and engrossing life histories in the Slave Narrative Collection, a project funded by the U.S. Government. An illuminating source of information.

• Rank: #6603 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.19" h x .51" w x 5.20" l, .30 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 157 pages

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Kindred (Bluestreak)
by Octavia Butler
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African Americans

Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana's life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.

• Rank: #1816 in Books
• Brand: Spring Arbor/Ingram
• Published on: 2004-02-01
• Released on: 2004-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.83" h x .83" w x 5.98" l, .76 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 287 pages

• Kindred (Bluestreak)