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African Princess

The Amazing Lives of Africa's Royal Women

by Hansen, Joyce & McGaw, Laurie

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Freedom Roads

Searching for the Underground Railroad

by Hansen, Joyce & McGowan, Gary

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Bury me not in a land of slaves

African-Americans in the time of Reconstruction

by Hansen, Joyce

An account of African-American life in the period of Reconstruction following the Civil War, based on first-person narratives, contemporary documents, and othe...

Women of Hope

African Americans Who Made a Difference

by Hansen, Joyce

Features photographs and biographies of thirteen African-American women, including Maya Angelou, Ruby Dee, and Alice Walker.

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly

The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl

by Hansen, Joyce

Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves.

The Captive

by Hansen, Joyce

When Kofi's father, an Ashanti chief, is killed, Kofi is sold as a slave and ends up in Massachusetts, where his fate is in the hands of Paul Cuffe, an African...

Yellow Bird and me

by Hansen, Joyce

Doris becomes friends with Yellow Bird as she helps him with his studies and his part in the school play and discovers that he has a problem known as dyslexia.