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Placing American slavery in historical context, a good research tool describes the growth, practice, and eventual end of slavery in the United States.

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9781590187043 | Lucent Books, July 30, 2005, cover price $33.45 | About this edition: Describes the growth, practice, and eventual end of slavery in the United States.

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Describes how slavery changed over the centuries, the effects of the rise of the cotton industry, the treatment of slaves, the lives they made for themselves, and the coming of emancipation.
By Henry Louis Gates (foreword by) and Richard Worth

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9780766021525 | Enslow Pub Inc, June 22, 2004, cover price $27.94 | About this edition: Describes how slavery changed over the centuries, the effects of the rise of the cotton industry, the treatment of slaves, the lives they made for themselves, and the coming of emancipation.

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Discusses the daily life of slaves on southern plantations including home life, family, work, and treatment by slave owners and society.

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9780737718270 | Kidhaven, March 1, 2004, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Discusses the daily life of slaves on southern plantations including home life, family, work, and treatment by slave owners and society.

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Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses of the South and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War. Reprint.

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9780590430289, titled "Christmas in the Big House: Christmas in the Quarters" | Reprint edition (Scholastic, October 1, 2002), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War.

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9780590430272 | Scholastic, October 1, 1994, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War.

Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War.

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9780606257800 | Demco Media, December 1, 2002, cover price $15.81 | About this edition: Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War.

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Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War.

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9780613728966 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2002, cover price $15.80 | About this edition: Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War.

Recreates a southern plantation of 1853 and describes the daily lives of its owners and of the slaves who worked there. (view table of contents)

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9780525675471, titled "Daily Life on a Southern Plantation 1853" | Lodestar Books, February 1, 1998, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Recreates a southern plantation of 1853 and describes the daily lives of its owners and of the slaves who worked there

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9780140566680, titled "Daily Life on a Southern Plantation 1853" | Reprint edition (Puffin, April 1, 2000), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Recreates a southern plantation of 1853 and describes the daily lives of its owners and of the slaves who worked there.

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9780613284592 | Turtleback Books, November 1, 2001, cover price $16.85 | About this edition: Recreates a southern plantation of 1853 and describes the daily lives of its owners and of the slaves who worked there.

Details the living conditions of plantation slaves, examing house, field and artisan work; food and clothing; marriage; separation; resistance; leisure activities; and old age.

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9781560065395 | Lucent Books, September 1, 1999, cover price $28.70 | About this edition: Details the living conditions of plantation slaves, examing house, field and artisan work; food and clothing; marriage; separation; resistance; leisure activities; and old age.

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Full-color photographs and an informative text detail the everyday lives of slaves, explaining how they were able to preserve some elements of their African heritage despite the frequently brutal treatment they experienced on Southern plantations.

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9780395773949 | Houghton Mifflin, September 9, 1997, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Describes how slaves were able to preserve some elements of their African heritage despite the often brutal treatment they experienced on Southern plantations.

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