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9781508149538 | Reprint edition (Powerkids Pr, August 15, 2016), cover price $10.00

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9781508149408 | Powerkids Pr, August 15, 2016, cover price $26.25

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Not all people who came to America from foreign countries did so seeking a better life. Some came to this country as slaves. The transatlantic slave trade brought Africans to America in chains for over two hundred years. Readers learn important facts about the transatlantic slave trade, which is an essential topic in social studies curricula. Historical images and primary sources help give readers a sense of what happened to slaves on the journey to America as well as what happened once they were put to work in this country.

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9781508141006 | Reprint edition (Powerkids Pr, January 15, 2016), cover price $10.00

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9781508141037 | Powerkids Pr, January 15, 2016, cover price $23.60 | About this edition: Not all people who came to America from foreign countries did so seeking a better life.

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Product Description: In this illuminating text, the origins of the slave trade in Africa and the effects of the practice of slavery on the political and economic history of the United States are explored. King Cotton, the slave hierarchy on southern plantations, the relationship of the slaveholders and slaves, the slave codes that regulated the absolute control of slaves, the ensuing slave rebellions, and the abolitionist movement and those who spoke out against the atrocities of slavery are among the many topics examined in this comprehensive historical resource...read more
By Ciara Campbell (editor)

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9781680480368 | Britannica Educational Pub, August 1, 2015, cover price $32.90 | About this edition: In this illuminating text, the origins of the slave trade in Africa and the effects of the practice of slavery on the political and economic history of the United States are explored.

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Product Description: Traces the history of slavery in the United States, focusing on the abolition movement and the final steps that freed an enslaved people.

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9780766063303 | Enslow Pub Inc, January 1, 2015, cover price $27.94 | About this edition: Traces the history of slavery in the United States, focusing on the abolition movement and the final steps that freed an enslaved people.

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9780766063310 | Enslow Pub Inc, January 1, 2015, cover price $12.88 | About this edition: Prior to the end of the Civil War in 1865, many considered slavery vital to the economy of the United States, especially in the South.

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Product Description: For more than 100 years, slavery was a way of life in the United States. Many people believed slavery was necessary and right. Many others fought tirelessly to end it. Hear the words they spoke. Read the words they read. And see the differing points of view about slavery through the eyes of the people who lived it...read more

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9781491418437 | Fact Finders, January 1, 2015, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: For more than 100 years, slavery was a way of life in the United States.

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9781491418390 | Fact Finders, January 1, 2015, cover price $26.65 | About this edition: For more than 100 years, slavery was a way of life in the United States.

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Product Description: One Of America's Bleakest Times, This Book Explores The Hardships Slaves Had To Endure And How Brave People Sought Their Freedom. Informational Text To Support Text Complexity And Rigor. Features Key Informational Text Features Such As Charts, Graphs, Maps, Diagrams, And Historical Documents And Images...read more

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9781621698326 | Rourke Pub Group, August 1, 2013, cover price $35.64 | About this edition: One Of America's Bleakest Times, This Book Explores The Hardships Slaves Had To Endure And How Brave People Sought Their Freedom.

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Product Description: One of America's bleakest times is the dark chapter in American history, slavery. Can you imagine being sold at an auction? This title explores the hardships slaves had to endure and how brave people sought for their freedom. This title will allow students to analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text and how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events...read more

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9781621697275 | Rourke Pub Group, August 1, 2013, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: One of America's bleakest times is the dark chapter in American history, slavery.

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The African American History series examines the experiences, events, and accomplishments of African Americans. Each book traces an era in American history from slavery to the civil rights movement and contemporary times, and showcases important events from these periods. Detailed text, historic photos, and fact-packed sidebars ensure students will gain a greater understanding of African American heritage.

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9781621272014 | Weigl Pub Inc, July 30, 2013, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The African American History series examines the experiences, events, and accomplishments of African Americans.
9781590368756 | Weigl Pub Inc, August 1, 2008, cover price $10.95

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9781621271956 | Weigl Pub Inc, July 30, 2013, cover price $29.99
9781590368749 | Weigl Pub Inc, July 30, 2008, cover price $29.05

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9781476534046 | Fact Finders, July 1, 2013, cover price $7.95

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9781476502380 | Fact Finders, July 1, 2013, cover price $26.65

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Product Description: This engaging and enlightening book allows readers to discover the history of slavery in America and the long fight for freedom before and during the Civil War. Readers will gain a better understanding of abolitionists, the fight for equality, the Underground Railroad, and Reconstruction through the stunning images, captivating sidebars and facts, easy to read text, and accessibe glossary, index, and table of contents...read more

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9781480721487 | Shell Education, June 15, 2013, cover price $23.96 | About this edition: This engaging and enlightening book allows readers to discover the history of slavery in America and the long fight for freedom before and during the Civil War.

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9781433315190 | Shell Education, July 12, 2011, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: This engaging and enlightening book allows readers to discover the history of slavery in America and the long fight for freedom before and during the Civil War.

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Product Description: In 1619, the first African slaves arrived in America. More than two hundred years later, African-American slaves continued to suffer under the cruelest and harshest conditions in the South. Slaves tried to escape, but it was difficult...read more

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9781464401855 | Enslow Pub Inc, March 1, 2013, cover price $10.53 | About this edition: In 1619, the first African slaves arrived in America.

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9780766041271 | Enslow Pub Inc, March 1, 2013, cover price $25.27 | About this edition: In 1619, the first African slaves arrived in America.

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Product Description: “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.” When Abraham Lincoln said this, many Americans did not agree. Most of them lived in the South, where their economy depended on slave labor. In 1861, the year Lincoln became president, the conflict over slavery became a war between a divided nation...read more

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9781464401879 | Enslow Pub Inc, March 1, 2013, cover price $10.53 | About this edition: “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

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9780766041295 | Enslow Pub Inc, March 1, 2013, cover price $25.27 | About this edition: “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

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Product Description: When the Missouri Territory applied for statehood in 1818, the United States had an equal number of free states and slave states. The territory's leaders wanted Missouri to be a slave state. But that would have destroyed the balance of representation in Congress...read more

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9780761385653 | Lerner Pub Group, March 1, 2012, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: When the Missouri Territory applied for statehood in 1818, the United States had an equal number of free states and slave states.

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9780761388296 | Lerner Pubns, January 1, 2012, cover price $43.93

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9780761353317 | Lerner Pub Group, March 1, 2012, cover price $30.65 | About this edition: When the Missouri Territory applied for statehood in 1818, the United States had an equal number of free states and slave states.

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9780531266243 | Childrens Pr, September 1, 2011, cover price $6.95

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9780531263112 | Childrens Pr, September 1, 2011, cover price $29.00

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Product Description: Now in Paperback! Slavery has plagued the history of humankind for thousands of years, from the conquered peoples of Ancient times to the millions of Africans stolen from their homelands and forced into work that helped build America and the modern world...read more

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9780756673277 | Reprint edition (Dk Pub, August 15, 2011), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Now in Paperback!

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Product Description: Frederick Douglass was born a slave and ended up becoming one of the most famous abolitionists of his time. This inspiring biography teaches readers about Douglass' incredible life. Through captivating images and illustrations and engaging sidebars and facts, readers will learn about the Thirteenth Amendment, the Underground Railroad, and the Emancipation Proclamation as well as people that had major impacts on Douglass' freedom and life, such as Abraham Lincoln, WIlliam Lloyd Garrison, and suffragists...read more

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9781433315183 | Shell Education, July 12, 2011, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Frederick Douglass was born a slave and ended up becoming one of the most famous abolitionists of his time.

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9781617147142 | Abdo Group, January 1, 2011, cover price $27.07

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9781608700417 | 1 edition (Benchmark Books, September 1, 2010), cover price $39.93

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Product Description: Explore The Time Of Slavery In America Through Engaging Text, Detailed Illustrations, And Photos Of Artifacts.

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9781615906376 | Rourke Pub Group, August 1, 2009, cover price $22.95

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9781606944479 | Rourke Pub Group, August 1, 2009, cover price $32.79 | About this edition: Explore The Time Of Slavery In America Through Engaging Text, Detailed Illustrations, And Photos Of Artifacts.

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Product Description: Slavery is a comprehensive look at the history of an abomination. Words and images reveal the story of slavery around the world and across the centuries, focusing on slavery in the United States in the 1800s. This authoritative, heavily illustrated guide looks at the escalation of the Atlantic slave trade, the African peoples who were targeted, the lives they led as slaves in the American South, the slow growth of worldwide anti-slavery movements, abolition in the United States, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and more...read more

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9780756651695 | Dk Pub, May 18, 2009, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Slavery is a comprehensive look at the history of an abomination.

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Invites readers to revisit the past and see what it was like to grow up as a slave in America.

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9780439567060 | Scholastic, February 1, 2004, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Invites readers to revisit the past and see what it was like to grow up as a slave in America.

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9781439588666 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $15.99

A history of slavery, looking at the conditions slaves faced in North America, examining slave revolts and other types of resistance, and discussing the end of slavery in the U.S.

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9781602531345 | The Childs World Inc, January 1, 2009, cover price $29.93
9781567669237 | The Childs World Inc, September 1, 2001, cover price $29.93 | About this edition: A history of slavery, looking at the conditions slaves faced in North America, examining slave revolts and other types of resistance, and discussing the end of slavery in the U.

Product Description: This book uses primary source materials to study the institution of slavery in the United States and its role in the Civil War. Contents include: What is slavery?; Slavery begins in English America; How did they get there?; Slave auctions; Slave work; Slave women and children; Slave food, clothing, and shelter; Slave families; The slave community; Time off from work; Overseers and masters; U...read more

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9781439538678 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $18.49 | also contains Slavery in the United States | About this edition: This book uses primary source materials to study the institution of slavery in the United States and its role in the Civil War.

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