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Start Your Weekend at the Library!
Enjoy stories, songs, and hands-on activities.
(All Ages)
Saturdays: 10:30 a.m. at Roy and Helen Hall Library (Hall)
Special Story Themes:
June 15: Juneteenth
June 29: Pride Month
July 6: Independence Day
Pub. Date
[2012], c2009
Language
English
Description
In this Globe Trekker video, traveler Ian Wright begins his African adventure on the historic island of Zanzibar, a former center of the Arab-dominated slave trade that lasted until 1922, and traces the path of Dr. Livingstone, an explorer and antislavery campaigner, from a crocodile and hippo filled river safari on the world's biggest game reserve, Selous, to the scenic Kigoma on the western edge of Tanzania and the Gome Stream Chimpanzee colony...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Shows how to find, evaluate, organize and use evidence on key topics about slavery and the slave trade, such as the triangular trade across the Atlantic, attitudes to slavery and conditions on plantations, and the abolition of slavery. There are extensive references to types of sources, including primary source documents like slave ownership records, eyewitness accounts, and photographs, and a range of completed examples and graphic organizers, including...
3) Shackles from the deep: tracing the path of a sunken slave ship, a bitter past, and a rich legacy
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A pile of lime-encrusted shackles discovered on the seafloor in the remains of a ship called the Henrietta Marie, lands Michael Cottman, a Washington, D.C.-based journalist and avid scuba diver, in the middle of an amazing journey that stretches across three continents, from foundries and tombs in England, to slave ports on the shores of West Africa, to present-day Caribbean plantations. This is more than just the story of one ship - it's the untold...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The challenge of genealogical research is even more evident as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. continues back through the Colonial period of American history in this program. The film takes us on a journey to fill in the family trees of each of the series participants, through war service records and various records of property during slavery's apogee - including inventories, sales, or gifts of slaves. In West Virginia, Professor Gates finds a court transcript...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013
Language
English
Description
This program examines the most tumultuous and consequential period in African-American history: the Civil War and the end of slavery, and Reconstruction's thrilling but brief "moment in the sun." From the beginning, African Americans were agents of their liberation-by fleeing the plantations and taking up arms to serve in the United States Colored Troops. After Emancipation, African Americans sought to realize the promise of freedom-rebuilding families...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the author of 1491--the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas--a deeply engaging new history that explores the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning...
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