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101) Prodigies
Author
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the mid-1870s, Daniel McCormack, a street urchin in New York's dangerous Five Points district, attracts the attention of a criminal gang with his astounding hand-eye co-ordination. Elsewhere, Lincoln Henry, a Tennessee-born child of ex-slaves, turns heads with his gift for geometry and mathematics, and Lily Mandeville, an orphan working with a traveling circus, discovers her talent for talking with dogs. Daniel's gang and Lily's circus travel...
Series
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Union occupation of parts of the Confederacy during the Civil War forced federal officials to confront questions about the social order that would replace slavery. This volume of Freedom presents a documentary history of the emergence of free-labor relations in the large plantation areas of the Union-occupied Lower South. The documents illustrate the experiences of former slaves as military laborers, as residents of federally sponsored "contraband...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"En 1848, Mary Walker nació siendo esclava. A los 15 años fue liberada. A los 20, se casó y tuvo su primer hijo. A los 68 aún trabajaba y recogía dinero para su iglesia. A los 114, era el último miembro de su familia que aún vivía. A los 116 años, Mary Walker aprendió a leer. Nunca es demasiado tarde para aprender." --
"A picture book biography sharing the inspiring and incredible true story of the nation's oldest student, Mary Walker,...
Author
Series
Occasional tracts ; no. 11
Publisher
American Reform Tract and Book Society, Cincinnati, Ohio
Pub. Date
[not before 1862]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The Museum of Modern Art
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952), credited as the first female photojournalist in the United States, was commissioned in 1899 to photograph the Hampton Institute, then a 30-year-old institution dedicated to the education of young African American and Native American men and women. What became known as the Hampton Album, comprised of 159 luxurious platinum plates that offer insight into the daily life of students, originally exhibited in 1900...
114) Annual report
Author
Publisher
Prentiss & Deland
Pub. Date
1862-1864.
Language
English
Description
With extracts from letters of teachers and superintendents.
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