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What Are You Figuring Now?
A Story about Benjamin Banneker
Av Jeri Ferris
E-bok, 2011
500 kr
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In 1791 plans for the new capital city, Washington, DC, were in the works, but someone was needed to help with the surveying. Thomas Jefferson recommended Benjamin Banneker for the job. Banneker was a free black man who lived at a time when black Americans had few, if any, rights. Yet he was an …
Go Free or Die
A Story about Harriet Tubman
Av Jeri Ferris
E-bok, 2011
511 kr
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For the first twenty-eight years of her life. Harriet Tubman lived as a slave on a southern plantation. Finally, with the help of a Quaker woman, she was able to escape to Philadelphia by way of the Underground Railroad. After her escape, Harriet began her quest to help free other slaves. Over a …
Walking the Road to Freedom
A Story about Sojourner Truth
Av Jeri Ferris
E-bok, 2011
500 kr
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Sojourner Truth was born into slavery in New York in 1797 or 1798. She never knew for sure which year she was born or even whether it was summer or winter. By the time she was a young woman, Sojourner knew she could no longer live as a slave, and with the help of Quakers, she escaped to freedom. …
Remember the Ladies
A Story about Abigail Adams
Av Jeri Ferris
E-bok, 2000
511 kr
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Abigail Adams lived through the Revolutionary War and became the First Lady of the second president of the United States. Though women of her time could not vote, govern, or own property, Abigail believed that women should not be ruled by laws they did not make. Although she did not see these …
