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Sounder

By: Armstrong, William H.

Price: $15.25

Publisher: NY, Harpercollins: c1969

Seller ID: 21461

ISBN: 0060201436

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket

Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder. 1970 Newbery Award Winner, Mark Twain Award 1972, Lewis Carroll Shelf Award 1970; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 116 pages; 21461
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Ernestine & Amanda: Members Of The C.L.U.B.

By: Belton, Sandra

Price: $18.00

Publisher: NY, Simon & Schuster: 1997

Seller ID: 24847

ISBN: 0689816111

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

Remainder mark. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 161 pages; 24847
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Rites of Passage Stories about Growing Up by Black Writers from around the World

By: Bolden, Tonya (editor)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children: 1994

Seller ID: 31822

ISBN: 0786810769

Binding: Softcover

Condition: As New

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages; 31822
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

By: Carson, Clayborne [editor]

Price: $11.75

Publisher: Intelligent Properties Management, By Time Warner: 1998

Seller ID: 31820

ISBN: 0446524123

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket

21 black & white photographs. Front of DJ lightly rubbed. Not uncommon in silver DJs. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 400 pages; 31820
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Bud, Not Buddy

By: Curtis, Christopher Paul

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Scholastic: 2000

Seller ID: 20156

ISBN: 0439227534

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H. E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. ; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 245 pages; 20156
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Paris Trout

By: Dexter, Pete

Price: $10.20

Publisher: Penguin: 1989

Seller ID: 20122

ISBN: 0140122060

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

The mesmerizing story of the murder of a fourteen-year-old black girl and the killer is Paris Trout, a respected white citizen...and a man without guilt. Winner of the National Book Award ; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall - 8" to 9" tall; 20122
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My Bondage And My Freedom

By: Douglass, Frederick

Price: $29.00

Publisher: Chicago, IL, Johnson Publishing Company: 1970

Seller ID: 20550

ISBN: 0874850347

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket

Autobiography of Frederick Douglass. Previous owner's name; smudge on upper right corner of front board; Ebony Classics Series; Small 4to - 9" to 11" tal; [xv] 829 pages; 20550
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Ain't No River

By: Foster, Sharon Ewell

Price: $11.10

Publisher: Alabaster Books, Multnomah Publishers: 2001

Seller ID: 19940

ISBN: 1576736288

Binding: Softcover

Condition: As New

Garvin, a sassy, bright, self-absorbed lawyer heads home to North Carolina, determined to help her grandmother who has suddenly slimmed-down and turned into a fox, causing the town to point fingers at her and her new "escort". ; Trade PB; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall - 8" to 9" tall; 19940
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Within The Plantation Household

By: Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth

Price: $38.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina: 1995

Seller ID: 21074

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. ; Small 4to - 9" to 11" tall; 544 pages; 21074
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Colored People A Memoir

By: Gates. Jr. , Henry Louis

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Knopf: 1994

Seller ID: 29341

ISBN: 0679421793

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

In this rich memoir of his early life, the celebrated scholar and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr. , gives an indelible portrait of a vanished America. Born in 1950, he grew up in Piedmont, West Virginia, a town perched on the side of a hill in the Allegheny Mountains. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale, and his Ph. D. from Cambridge. Full of humor, thoughtful, and engaging, Gates has written a classic oming-of-age story that will inspire generations to come. A portion of this book was previously printed in "The New Yorker". ; Cover Art; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 216 pages; 29341
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Time-ago Lost More Tales of Jahdu

By: Hamilton, Virginia

Price: $15.00

Publisher: NY, Macmillan: 1973

Seller ID: 12343

ISBN: 0027424502

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good- Dust Jacket

The further adventures of Jahdu are as meaningful and spell-binding as those in the Newbery Honor Book "Time-Ago Tales". Lightly soiled jacket has tiny closed tear at head and heel of spine, in mylar Book Jacket Cover. Previous owner's seal. ; Square Small 4to - 9" to 11" tall; 85 pages; 12343
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The People Could Fly

By: Hamilton, Virginia (Told by)

Price: $13.00

Publisher: NY, Alfred A. Knopf: 1993

Seller ID: 12354

ISBN: 0679843361

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope. Coretta Scott King Award, ALA Booklist Editors' Choice, SLJ Best Book of the Year, Horn Book Fanfare Honor Book, NY Times Best Illustrated book, ALA Notable Children's Book, Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, NCTE Teachers' Choice. Previous owner's gift note, faint edgewear. ; B&W Drawings; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 178 pages; 12354
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Minnie's Sacrifice/ Sowing And Reaping/ Trial And Triumph Three Rediscovered Novels

By: Harper, Frances E. W. (Frances Smith Foster, Ed. )

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Beacon Press.: 1994

Seller ID: 31049

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 286 pages; 31049
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Black Odyssey, The Afro-american Ordeal In Slavery

By: Huggins, Nathan Irvin

Price: $28.00

Publisher: NY, Pantheon Books: 1977

Seller ID: 26553

ISBN: 0394416414

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no Dust Jacket

This classic work of scholarship and empathy tells the story of the self-creation of the African-American people. It assesses the full impact of the Middle Passage -- "the most traumatizing mass human migration in modern history" -- and of North American slavery both on the enslaved and on those who enslaved them. It explores the ways in which a nominally free society perverted its own freedoms and denied the fact that an inhuman institution lies at the heart of the American experience. The authority and eloquence of this work make it essential reading for all who want to understand th...
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The Value Of Helping, The Story Of Harriet Tubman

By: Johnson, Ann Donegan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Value Communications: 1979

Seller ID: 31936

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no Dust Jacket

0916392414 Describes the helpful work of Harriet Tubman in aiding slaves to flee the South, helping the Union army during the Civil War, and in establishing homes for the old and needy after the war. ValueTales is a series of simple biographical children's books published primarily by the now-defunct Value Communications, Inc. In La Jolla, California. The forty-three books were written by Dr. Spencer Johnson and Ann Donegan Johnson, and illustrated by Stephen Pileggi. Each book gave a simplified biography of a historical figure as an allegory, illustrating the value of a positive characteristi...
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