A slaveowner's son becomes an abolitionist in "A Different Kind of Christmas" by this "Roots" author
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ourr.html - Oberlin College  A twelve year old boy suddenly gets a chance to become a conductor of the ... A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHRISTMAS ... is about a young boy whose abolitionist family helped fugitive slaves to freedom. ... Starting with the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, this book covers Underground Railroad roots through many Ohio counties.
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Jeopary Questions page 1596 - PEOPLE IN HISTORY - TriviaBistro ...  AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT: A slaveowner's son becomes an abolitionist in "A Different Kind of Christmas" by this "Roots" author  FLYING MANEUVERS: To do it...
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Free Flashcards about BLACK HISTORY MO. - StudyStack  A SLAVEOWNER'S SON BECOMES AN ABOLITIONIST IN "A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHRISTMAS" BY THIS AUTHOR, ALEX HALEY. IN 1859, IT ... THIS 1976 BESTSELLER SPARKED INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT OF GENEOLOGY, ROOTS.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin Book Review | Plugged In  This historic drama was written in 1851 by Harriet Beecher Stowe as a serial story for an ... Young George Shelby arrives, hugs Tom and promises that when he's older, he will track ... Miss Ophelia, an abolitionist, refuses to engage her in conversation about slavery. .... One slave, Cassy, lives in his house as his mistress.
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Alex Haley Biography - life, family, story, history, school, mother, son ...  Alex Haley is the celebrated author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976). ... Alex Haley. ... The work sold more than five million copies and launched Haley's writing ... Haley himself described Roots as a "faction," a mixture of fact and fiction. ... Many activists viewed Roots to be an important part of the civil rights...
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Abolitionism in the United States or Antislavery Movement in the ...  Whether black or white, most abolitionists found inspiration in two key strains of ... Opposition to slavery increased dramatically during the antebellum years, but its ... antislavery activists were New Jersey Friend John Woolman, the author of the .... Garrison helped to usher in a new era in abolitionism, but he was not alone in...
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Harriet Beecher Stowe - CivilWarWiki  Oct 30, 2010 ... American writer and abolitionist, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), ... Stowe was the daughter of the liberal clergyman Lyman Beecher.
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Samuel Morris - International House of Prayer  While he was held captive, Kaboo was often tortured and beaten with poisonous vines ... Much to his surprise, the first person Kaboo met was a Kru boy, about his .... to former slaves.2 Her father bought his freedom and that of his wife and first ..... Henry worked at his trade during the week and tended to his flock on Sundays...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin - Wikipedia  Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the...
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Free Flashcards about BLACK HISTORY MO. - StudyStack  THE NOVEL "A WOMAN CALLED MOSES", RECANTS THE HEROIC STRUGGLES OF THIS ABOLITIONIST, HARRIET TUBMAN. A SLAVEOWNER'S SON...
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A Negro Explorer at the North Pole: The Autobiography of Matthew ...  Editorial Reviews. From Publishers Weekly. Robert Peary is remembered as the intrepid ... A Negro Explorer at the North Pole: The Autobiography of Matthew Henson .... by S. Allen Counter, author of North Pole Legacy: Black, White, and Eskimo .... Have you ever heard of Admiral Perry and his journey to the North Pole?
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21st August 1831  Nat Turner's Rebellion | Dorian Cope presents ...  Born in 1800, Turner had been taught to read by his first owner who believed ... and freedom from the Bible, and was soon preaching to the other slaves the ... he believed that he was chosen by God to deliver his people from bondage ... I just wish that more black though like nat, maybe we as black people would be further.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin - Wikipedia  Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author ... Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the ..... to the North with her five-year-old son Harry after he is sold to Mr. Haley. .... Evidently the death of Little Eva affected a lot of people at that time, because in...
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Phillis Wheatley's poem on tyranny and slavery, 1772 | The Gilder ...  Born in Africa, Phillis Wheatley was captured and sold into slavery as a child. She was purchased by John Wheatley of Boston in 1761. The Wheatleys soon recognized Phillis's ... This poem was printed in her book, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, published in London in 1773. With this book's appearance,...
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"Marley's Ghost" by Harry Furniss  fifth illustration for "A Christmas ...  Jun 4, 2013 ... ... forces Ebenezer Scrooge to confront his own deplorable spiritual state. ... The chain he drew was clasped about his middle. ... it closely) of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel. ... and has included all the elements of furniture and costume that Dickens describes.
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Frederick Douglass - Wikipedia  Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the ... Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of ... He was given his name by his mother, Harriet Bailey.
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Free Flashcards about BLACK HISTORY MO. - StudyStack  IN AN 1852 SPEECH, FREDERICK DOUGLASS CALLED THIS HOLIDAY "A SHAM...FRAUD .... MARI EVANS ADAPTED THIS ZORA NEALE HURSTON WORK AS A MUSICAL TITLED "EYES", THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD. HE WAS...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin - Free Essays  Tom's most important characteristic is his Christian faith. ... Harry, born a slave on the Shelby Plantation, is bright and cute, and sings ... Tom Loker is shot by George Harris, but the Harrises and the Quakers forgive him, ... Because Marie can't act for anyone but herself, she fails to prevent Uncle Tom's sale to Simon Legree.
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My Bondage and My Freedom (Digireads.Com Classics): Frederick ...  Editorial Reviews. Review. My Bondage and My Freedom, besides giving a fresh impulse to ... The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X .... that Frederick Douglass published another volume of his autobiography. ... book (My Freedom) tells of his life after he escaped from slavery, his experiences...