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Slavery & Slave Trade - Books for Children -

Related categories: Childrens & Teenage Books / Black, Asian & Other Diasporas /
Related booklists: Slavery & the Slave Trade, Slavery and The Slave Trade in Fiction and Poetry, Black and Asian America - Books for Children, The Underground Railroad, Slavery & Slave Trade - Books for Young Adults,

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 8 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Freedom by Catherine Johnson
    Freedom - by Catherine Johnson

    £4.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781407185484 | ISBN 10: 1407185489

    Winner of the 2019 Little Rebels Award.   There’s no escape – even when you escape. Where can a slave like Nat run to? Forced to leave his family and move to England with his master, Nat can see only one silver lining. He’s heard that on ... more

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  • Cover image of book Little People, Big Dreams: Harriet Tubman by Isabel Sanchez Vegara, illustrated by Pili Aguado
    Little People, Big Dreams: Harriet Tubman - by Isabel Sanchez Vegara, illustrated by Pili Aguado

    £9.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786032898 | ISBN 10: 1786032899

    New in the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Harriet Tubman, the Underground Railroad conductor who 'never lost a single passenger.'   Little Harriet was born into slavery on a plantation i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Passing for White by Tanya Landman
    Passing for White - by Tanya Landman

    £6.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781126813 | ISBN 10: 178112681x

    It’s 1848 in the Deep South of America. Rosa is a slave but her owner is also her father and her fair skin means she can ‘pass for white’. With the help of Benjamin, her husband, she disguises herself as a young white man – and Benjamin’s m ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Story: Slave Girl by Patricia C McKissack
    My Story: Slave Girl - by Patricia C McKissack

    £6.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781407156514 | ISBN 10: 1407156519

    Clotee is a slave in a Virginia plantation. To her, freedom is the greatest word in the world. In the slave quarters, people pray for freedom, or as they call it 'heaven'. But when will it come? ... more

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  • Cover image of book Real Lives: Harriet Tubman by Deborah Chancellor
    Real Lives: Harriet Tubman - by Deborah Chancellor

    £5.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781408178393 | ISBN 10: 1408178397

    The amazing story of Harriet Tubman.  Born a slave in the Deep South of the US, she escaped via the Underground Railroad to the north, then went back and helped some 70 more slaves to escape, at great personal risk. She worked as a nurse for the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Story of Slavery by Sarah Courtauld
    The Story of Slavery - by Sarah Courtauld

    £4.99   hardback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780746087527 | ISBN 10: 0746087527

    A compelling account of the story of slavery from ancient times, through the sugar plantations of the Caribbean and America to the slave trade's official abolition 200 years ago. Recounts the stories of individual slaves, including their journeys and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Unheard Voices: An Anthology of Stories and Poems by Malorie Blackman (ed)
    Unheard Voices: An Anthology of Stories and Poems - by Malorie Blackman (ed)

    £6.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780552556002 | ISBN 10: 0552556009

    In March 1807, the British Parliament passed an Act making the trading and transportation of slaves illegal. It was many years before slavery, as it was known then, was abolished, and slavery still continues today in different ways, but it was a big ... more

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  • Cover image of book From Slave Ship to Freedom Road by Julius Lester & Rod Brown
    From Slave Ship to Freedom Road - by Julius Lester & Rod Brown

    £6.99   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780140566697 | ISBN 10: 0140566694

    'From Slave Ship to Freedom Road' asks every reader - black or white, young or old - to come to terms with slavery's legacy. Through Rod Brown's extraordinary paintings and Julius Lester's intensely personal text, we are drawn into all aspects of the ... more

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