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    A Primary Source History of Slavery in the United States
    A Primary Source History of Slavery in the United States
    A Primary Source History of Slavery in the United States
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    A Primary Source History of Slavery in the United States

    By Lisa M. Bolt Simons

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateMay 1, 2019
    ISBN9781496665072
    A Primary Source History of Slavery in the United States
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    Lisa M. Bolt Simons

    Lisa M. Bolt Simons has published more than 60 nonfiction children’s books, as well as four middle grade “choose your path” novels and an adult history book. She’s twice received an Honorable Mention for the McKnight Artist Fellowship for Writers in Children’s Literature. She’s also received two Minnesota State Arts Board grants and other accolades for her writing. Lisa is a proud mom to her science- and math-minded twin daughter and son. Originally from Colorado, Lisa lives in Minnesota with her husband, who also loves to read.

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      Book preview

      A Primary Source History of Slavery in the United States - Lisa M. Bolt Simons

      The author dedicates this book to her brother Andrew, a fellow history buff.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      COVER

      TITLE PAGE

      A NOTE ABOUT PRIMARY SOURCES

      COLONIAL SLAVE TRADE

      SLAVERY IN A NEW NATION

      LIFE AS A SLAVE

      A DIVIDED NATION

      FREEDOM

      SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

      GLOSSARY

      INDEX

      COPYRIGHT

      BACK COVER

      A NOTE ABOUT PRIMARY SOURCES

      Primary sources are newspaper articles, photographs, speeches, or other documents that were created during an event. They are great ways to see how people spoke and felt during that time. You’ll find primary sources from the time of slavery in the United States throughout this book. Within the text, primary source quotations are colored brown and set in italic type.

      COLONIAL SLAVE TRADE

      "... the slaves in the night were often heard making a howling ... kind of noise, something expressive of extreme anguish. I found that it was occasioned by finding themselves in a slave room, after dreaming that they had been ... amongst friends ..."

      —Thomas Trotter, a surgeon on a slave ship

      Riding below deck, in the waves of the Atlantic, enslaved Africans experienced the nightmare that was a slave ship. The people on board had been kidnapped from their homes in Africa. They were chained together and forced

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