When two English brothers arrive at a Barbados sugar plantation, they bring with them a darkness beyond what the slaves have already known. Washington Black -- an eleven year-old field slave -- is horrified to find himself chosen to...
Plantation life
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Auteur:Davis, M. E. M.Sommaire:Under the sprawling branches of the ancient man-fig tree in the town square, the gossiby men of Thornham relax and spin colorful yarns for each other's amusements. There, reputations are established or sullied, and local rumors of all...
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Auteur:Stowe, Harriet BeecherSommaire:Thought by many to have helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War by stirring the empathy of Northern whites for the plight of Southern slaves, this novel follows the long-suffering, deeply religious Uncle Tom through the trials of...
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Auteur:Heyward, Edward Barnwell, Coclanis, Peter A.Sommaire:The Civil War and Reconstruction eras decimated the rice-planting enterprise of the South, and no family experienced the effects of this economic upheaval quite as dramatically as the Heywards of South Carolina, a family synonymous with...
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Auteur:Northup, SolomonSommaire:A sobering reminder of America’s abhorrent past of slavery, the legacy of which has reverberated its legacy well into the present day, Solomon Northup’s memoir is a fully engrossing chronicle of a free man living in New York State who...
- Auteur:Johnson, SadeqaSommaire:
Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother's position as the estate's medicine woman and cherished by the Master's sister, she is set...
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Auteur:Clarke, AustinSommaire:Winner of the 2002 Scotiabank Giller Prize and of the 2003 Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Best Book (Canada and the Caribbean) When an elderly Bimshire village woman calls the police to confess to a murder, the result is a shattering all-...
- Auteur:Peterson, Tracie, Miller, JudithSommaire:
As Jasmine and her husband thank God for delivering their daughter from certain death, tragic news arrives. Yellow fever has decimated Jasmine's Mississippi family. And now the Houstons must leave their Massachusetts horse farm to face...
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Auteur:Douglass, FrederickSommaire:The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass' third autobiography. In it he was able to go into greater detail about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery, as he and his family were no longer in any danger from the...
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Auteur:Pignat, CarolineSommaire:"Phoebe belongs to Master Duncan and works in the plantation kitchen. She sees how the other slaves are treated -- the beatings and whippings, the disappearances. She hasn't seen her mother since Master Duncan sold her ten years ago....
- Auteur:McKinney, MeaganSommaire:
Stella St. Valliers must discover a long buried secret in order to restore her legacy and have a future of her own.
- Auteur:Douglass, FrederickSommaire:
The second in the series of three autobiographies penned by Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom picks up where Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass left off. This volume recounts more gripping details of Douglass'...
- Auteur:Grissom, KathleenSommaire:
«Comment aurais-je pu lui reprocher son incapacité d’aimer la partie de moi que je détestais moi-même?» 1824. À la mort de ses parents adoptifs, James s’évertue à cacher une partie de son histoire aux gens qui l’entourent, dont Caroline...
- Auteur:Grissom, KathleenSommaire:
À la fin du 18e siècle, en Virginie, un terrible secret plane sur une plantation de tabac. Ayant perdu ses parents irlandais lors de sa traversée de l’Atlantique, la petite Lavinia, âgée de sept ans, se retrouve domestique au domaine du...
- Auteur:Allende, IsabelSommaire:
"Allende is a master storyteller at the peak of her powers." — Los Angeles Times From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, the latest novel from New York...
- Auteur:Mitchell, MargaretSommaire:
First published in 1936, this book is a historical novel set against the dramatic backdrop of the Civil War. It tells the love story of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler.
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Auteur:Entel, RebeccaSommaire:Driven by curiosity about her small Carribean island, Myrna secretly excavates the ruins of a former slave plantation. Her investigation into the past will take a deeply personal turn in the present.
- Auteur:Atakora, AfiaSommaire:
A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing—and for the conjuring of curses—are at the heart of this dazzling first novel LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE "Lush, irresistible ... It took me into the...
- Auteur:Albert, Susan WittigSommaire:
When a man dies soon after Tullie bashes his head with her cane, China's estranged mother frantically calls for her daughter's help. Rushing to her family's Mississippi plantation, China must determine if her Great Aunt Tullie is guilty...
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Auteur:Fishburne, Anne Sinkler, LeClercq, Anne Sinkler WhaleySommaire:“Belvidere is underwater too deep for any eye but that of memory to reach,” begins Anne Sinkler Fishburne's reverential recollections of her ancestral home. Located between Santee River and Eutaw Creek near present day Eutaw Springs,...
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