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2) Firebrand
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1848 Vienna, fifteen-year-old August Bondi is forced to emigrate to America, leaving behind his comrades in the revolution. In his new country he is confronted by the evil of slavery, and sets out for Bleeding Kansas to join forces with the notorious John Brown.
10) Soon be free
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Dana investigates a mystery involving the old Kansas house that her parents have turned into a bed and breakfast business; in a parallel story, a Quaker boy living in the house in 1857 sets out to help some fugitive slaves to freedom.
12) John Brown
Author
Series
Twentieth century classics and school readings volume No. 10-11
Pub. Date
1900
Language
English
13) Bleeding Kansas
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a history of the border war preceding the American Civil War that was waged over whether Kansas would join the Union as a slave state or a free state.
Publisher
Lone Chimney Productions
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Dramatic re-enactments of incidents in Bleeding Kansas history make up this documentary about Kansans, two belief systems--freedom and slavery, and Kansas' significance in U. S. history of the time. The Battle of Black Jack, the massacre along Pottawatomie Creek, territorial elections, and John Brown's hanging following the Harpers Ferry raid are among the scenes portrayed by local re-enactors.
17) South wind
Author
Series
Great Plains saga volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Description
In the 1800s Kansas struggled to unite in a bid for statehood, while the nation was torn apart by a civil war. This story of hope, hatred, and hardship brings to life the farmers and soldiers, the outlaws and opportunists, the immigrants and orphans who came from all corners to call Kansas home.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A town at the center of the United States becomes the site of an ongoing struggle for freedom and equality. In May, 1854, Massachusetts was in an uproar. A judge, bound by the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, had just ordered a young African American man who had escaped from slavery in Virginia and settled in Boston to be returned to bondage in the South. An estimated fifty thousand citizens rioted in protest. Observing the scene was Amos Adams Lawrence,...
19) Pioneer summer
Author
Series
Prairie skies volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Charlie Keller has trouble feeling at home after his abolitionist father, wanting to cast a vote for freedom, moves his family from Massachusetts to the Kansas Territory which is on the verge of deciding whether to enter the Union as a free or a slave state.
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