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Author Katz, William Loren.

Title Breaking the chains : African-American slave resistance / William Loren Katz.

Publication Info. New York : Atheneum ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International Pub. Group, 1990.

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Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  326 KAT    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Children's Department  J975.004 K15B    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  975.004 K19B    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xiii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Fighting bondage on land and sea: The First rebels -- Daily toil, perilous struggle: A Troublesome property -- The Battle for family and knowledge -- Disrupting plantation life -- Industrial and urban resistance -- Music for Jesus, lyrics of freedom -- Flight and revolt: Runaways and maroons -- Revolts in the Age of Revolution -- Nineteenth-century slave rebels -- The Fiery abolitionists -- Marching to freedom: The Slaves' Civil War -- The Bayonets of freedom -- From slave liberation ... to protest.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-187) and index.
Summary Describes slavery in the United States, the harsh conditions under which slaves lived, the active and passive resistance with which they fought for their rights, the revolts, and the involvement of slaves in the Civil War.
Subject Slave rebellions -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Slavery.
Slave insurrections.
Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Afro-American -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.
ISBN 0689314930
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