Books About Slavery For Middle School. This outstanding book not only tells middle school readers judge’s courageous story. He told me he rejected christianity as the white man's religion that justified slavery.
Visitors to the site learn about frederick douglass' efforts to abolish slavery and his struggle for rights for all oppressed people. It also clearly explains the national debate over slavery as the united states began, and how that debate was changing. This book provides an overview of the history of slavery interwoven with stories relaying the life experiences of individual slaves.
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While some books have been reinstated by school districts after pushback from students and faculty, others remain blacklisted. If you want to start a conversation about the horrors of slavery, the seeds of america trilogy is the perfect way to get your middle school kid interested in a dark time in american history. Copper sun by sharon draper. Amari is an african girl, captured in africa, shackled, mistreated, held like cattle, raped and sold into slavery in america.