Slaves Who Dared

Describes the lives and times of outstanding African Americans who were born as slaves and went on to accomplish great things: Josiah Henson, Frederick Douglas, William and Ellen Craft, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Henry Bibb, Booker T. Washington, Susie King Taylor, Nat Love, Robert Smalls, and Sojourner Truth.

“A brilliant work of US history.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “Gripping.” —BCCB (starred review) “Accessible…Necessary.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction, Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave, who risked everything for a better life—now available as a young reader’s edition! In this incredible narrative, Erica Armstrong Dunbar reveals a fascinating and heartbreaking behind-the-scenes look at the Washingtons when they were the First Family—and an in-depth look at their slave, Ona Judge, who dared to escape from one of the nation’s Founding Fathers. Born into a life of slavery, Ona Judge eventually grew up to be George and Martha Washington’s “favored” dower slave. When she was told that she was going to be given as a wedding gift to Martha Washington’s granddaughter, Ona made the bold and brave decision to flee to the north, where she would be a fugitive. From her childhood, to her time with the Washingtons and living in the slave quarters, to her escape to New Hampshire, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, along with Kathleen Van Cleve, shares an intimate glimpse into the life of a little-known, but powerful figure in history, and her brave journey as she fled the most powerful couple in the country.

“A brilliant work of US history.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “Gripping.” —BCCB (starred review) “Accessible…Necessary.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A School Library Journal Best Nonfiction Book of 2019! A National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction, Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave, who risked everything for a better life—now available as a young reader’s edition! In this incredible narrative, Erica Armstrong Dunbar reveals a fascinating and heartbreaking behind-the-scenes look at the Washingtons when they were the First Family—and an in-depth look at their slave, Ona Judge, who dared to escape from one of the nation’s Founding Fathers. Born into a life of slavery, Ona Judge eventually grew up to be George and Martha Washington’s “favored” dower slave. When she was told that she was going to be given as a wedding gift to Martha Washington’s granddaughter, Ona made the bold and brave decision to flee to the north, where she would be a fugitive. From her childhood, to her time with the Washingtons and living in the slave quarters, to her escape to New Hampshire, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, along with Kathleen Van Cleve, shares an intimate glimpse into the life of a little-known, but powerful figure in history, and her brave journey as she fled the most powerful couple in the country.

WHAT IF WHITE PEOPLE WERE SLAVES is a story taking place between 1810 and1830 describing the lived experience of three adolescent-aged girls, and the challenges they faced in growing up during the days when white people were slaves here in America. Book One transports each reader to the early 1800s. WHAT IF WHITE PEOPLE WERE SLAVES? Book One Yrs. 1810 - 1830 Racism. Classism. Disenfranchisement. Discrimination. Prejudice. Sexism. A total lack of empathy. The American Dream... N. D. Brennan and Honesty Brennan asks one of the most profound questions of our generation: Do you think white people would understand if they would have been born slaves, and if they're history was ours? WHAT IF WHITE PEOPLE WERE SLAVES? introduces a tale of American history that will shock your system. This book represents storytelling at its finest but in waters that no one has ever dared to tread until now. What If White People Were Slaves essentially provides you and your neighbor with an opportunity to walk in each other's shoes by vicariously exposing you to the privileges and prohibitions that he, she, or that particular sect of our global community finds themselves inadvertently trapped inside of today. Two decades ago, the authors began to imagine a history that was radically different from what we each have experiences: where the roles of the races were inverted, while hypothesizing the type of country that would have consequently resulted. What do you believe would go through the mind of David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, if he was forced to helplessly watch the likes of Kendrick Lamar or Idris Elba savagely yet legally beat and rape a young Taylor Swift, Surrey Cruise, or Elle Fanning in real life, and within a community where everyone knows but no ones cares? In the alternative, would Black Lives still Matter if those black lives were instead white lives, and people of color were the privileged and enfranchised majority? These are the questions that we are possibly incapable of answering truthfully because these hypotheticals are so far-reaching from our dysfunctional reality. But the story of What If White People Were Slaves disturbingly yet wonderfully elevates your imagination where the utterly unimaginable is suddenly realized. Authors Honesty Brennan and N. D. Brennan paint a picture of American history that begins where white people are the slaves, and people of color are the slave masters. Dare to read this amazing lesson in history but only if you are willing to test a paradoxical irony that most Americans have never even imagined. What If White People Were Slaves is America's history, and the saddest story never told. Now...imagine life as we know it, history as we have been taught, but suddenly in the reverse... PREVIEW OF THE BOOK As Nakia and Summer both attempt to adapt to life without Summer's slave master and half-sister, and Nakia's best friend, Yuri, the community is forced to conform to new standards of living after one of the Caulker slaves savagely snuffs out the 9-year old's young life. A new and severely more egregious degree of slavery and global treatment of whites is suddenly instituted, which alters America's history for generations to come. This story reveals how the decision of one, crazed Caulker slave ultimately changed the entire course of history forever...and this is only the first fifteen. What If White People Were Slaves is the saddest tale of America's history never told.

For use in schools and libraries only. On December 21, 1848, Ellen Craft and her husband take their first dangerous steps toward freedom as runaway slaves.

This is the story of the life of a man who was a force to reckon with. He moved past frontiers seen at the time and embraced new horizons that has left a truly compelling legacy. Udo Akpabio was a man of many parts. A warrior, symbol of the indomitable spirit of the Annang people of Nigeria, charismatic leader and successful businessman yet finding time to carry out his duties as the patriarch of one of the largest and most influential family stock in South-South Nigeria. Set in the late nineteenth century and through the colonial era, this book tells the story of a man who dared where others dread. The dim circumstances of his early childhood did not deter his ambition to turn around his fortune. Rising above the temptous phase of his early adult life, he attained the highest traditional stool of the Annang people. He was a bridge between the British and the indigenous people, and acting on intriguing insight, Udo Akpabio, steered the affairs of his people and was able to strike a delicate balance between age-long traditions and westernization.

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