Slavery in the New World
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Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
Amari loses her family and her way of life when she is taken from Africa on a slave ship and sold into slavery. Her quest for survival and freedom will lead to unexpected places.
Awards: Coretta Scott King Book Award Winner Author
Heartland Award for Excellence in Children's Literature
Winner Ohioana Book Awards
Winner Juvenile Literature United States
Society of Midland Authors Book
Award Finalist Children's Fiction
South Dakota Teen Choice Award Winner High School
Reviews: "Some stories need to be told. Fifteen-year-old Amari’s story of slavery is told through Sharon Draper’s powerful new novel, Copper Sun. Amari’s tale begins in an African village, where she lives with her family. Foreign visitors are given a warm welcome before a blood bath ensues as the visitors kill many villagers or put them in shackles. The slaves’ journey to America is brutal, but Amari survives. She is later sold to a plantation owner, who buys her as a gift to his son for his 16th birthday. Life on the plantation is harsh, but Polly (an indentured white servant) helps Amari and later befriends her. After witnessing a brutal murder by the plantation owner, Amari, Polly, and Tidbit (a slave’s son) escape captivity and become runaways. Draper masterfully portrays the inhumane realities of slaves’ lives in America in this compelling read. Unimaginable horrors are graphically portrayed; there are scenes of rape and bloodshed, including a scene where slave owners use Tidbit as gator bait. These visions allow audiences to not only hear the story, but they enable us to feel the rage and injustices as well. Ages 14 to 18." -Jill Adams (The ALAN Review, Spring/Summer 2006 (Vol. 33, No. 3))
Amari loses her family and her way of life when she is taken from Africa on a slave ship and sold into slavery. Her quest for survival and freedom will lead to unexpected places.
Awards: Coretta Scott King Book Award Winner Author
Heartland Award for Excellence in Children's Literature
Winner Ohioana Book Awards
Winner Juvenile Literature United States
Society of Midland Authors Book
Award Finalist Children's Fiction
South Dakota Teen Choice Award Winner High School
Reviews: "Some stories need to be told. Fifteen-year-old Amari’s story of slavery is told through Sharon Draper’s powerful new novel, Copper Sun. Amari’s tale begins in an African village, where she lives with her family. Foreign visitors are given a warm welcome before a blood bath ensues as the visitors kill many villagers or put them in shackles. The slaves’ journey to America is brutal, but Amari survives. She is later sold to a plantation owner, who buys her as a gift to his son for his 16th birthday. Life on the plantation is harsh, but Polly (an indentured white servant) helps Amari and later befriends her. After witnessing a brutal murder by the plantation owner, Amari, Polly, and Tidbit (a slave’s son) escape captivity and become runaways. Draper masterfully portrays the inhumane realities of slaves’ lives in America in this compelling read. Unimaginable horrors are graphically portrayed; there are scenes of rape and bloodshed, including a scene where slave owners use Tidbit as gator bait. These visions allow audiences to not only hear the story, but they enable us to feel the rage and injustices as well. Ages 14 to 18." -Jill Adams (The ALAN Review, Spring/Summer 2006 (Vol. 33, No. 3))
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Sugar Chaged the World: a Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos
This book is about the history of the sugar trade. It covers the story from the enslavement of countless individuals in order to farm sugar to its use in ethanol in the 21st century.
Awards: Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Finalist Young Adult Literature
School Library Journal's Battle of the Kids' Books, Nominee
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults, Finalist
Reviews: "From 1600 to the 1800s, sugar drove the economies of Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa and did more "to reshape the world than any ruler, empire, or war had ever done." Millions of people were taken from Africa and enslaved to work the sugar plantations throughout the Caribbean, worked to death to supply the demand for sugar in Europe. Aronson and Budhos make a case for Africans as not just victims but "true global citizens....the heralds of [our] interconnected world," and they explain how, ironically, the Age of Sugar became the Age of Freedom. Maps, photographs and archival illustrations, all with captions that are informative in their own right, richly complement the text, and superb documentation and an essay addressed to teachers round out the fascinating volume. Covering 10,000 years of history and ranging the world, the story is made personal by the authors' own family stories, their passion for the subject and their conviction that young people are up to the challenge of complex, well-written narrative history." - Kirkus (Kirkus Reviews, September 1, 2010 (Vol. 78, No. 17))
This book is about the history of the sugar trade. It covers the story from the enslavement of countless individuals in order to farm sugar to its use in ethanol in the 21st century.
Awards: Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Finalist Young Adult Literature
School Library Journal's Battle of the Kids' Books, Nominee
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults, Finalist
Reviews: "From 1600 to the 1800s, sugar drove the economies of Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa and did more "to reshape the world than any ruler, empire, or war had ever done." Millions of people were taken from Africa and enslaved to work the sugar plantations throughout the Caribbean, worked to death to supply the demand for sugar in Europe. Aronson and Budhos make a case for Africans as not just victims but "true global citizens....the heralds of [our] interconnected world," and they explain how, ironically, the Age of Sugar became the Age of Freedom. Maps, photographs and archival illustrations, all with captions that are informative in their own right, richly complement the text, and superb documentation and an essay addressed to teachers round out the fascinating volume. Covering 10,000 years of history and ranging the world, the story is made personal by the authors' own family stories, their passion for the subject and their conviction that young people are up to the challenge of complex, well-written narrative history." - Kirkus (Kirkus Reviews, September 1, 2010 (Vol. 78, No. 17))
Find out more....
Music and Dance of Sugar Work: This website, put together by the authors of "Sugar Changed the World" above, is a collection of recorded music and dance of those who worked on the sugar plantations. http://sugarchangedtheworld.com/the-music-and-dance-of-sugar-work/
African American Odyssey: This collection from the Library of Congress of historic photographs and other documents chronicles the African American community's quest for equality in the United States. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html
Official Site of Sharon Draper: Find out why the author chose to tell the story and how she researched the facts that exist in the novel The Copper Sun. http://sharondraper.com/bookdetail.asp?id=20
How Slavery Affected African American Families: An essay, by Heather Andrea Williams with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tells how slavery affected families. http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1609-1865/essays/aafamilies.htm
Quiz: What do you know about slavery?: This quiz put out by Business Week covers major events in the history of slavery in the United States? How much do you know? http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/07/slavery_quiz/index_01.htm
African American Odyssey: This collection from the Library of Congress of historic photographs and other documents chronicles the African American community's quest for equality in the United States. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html
Official Site of Sharon Draper: Find out why the author chose to tell the story and how she researched the facts that exist in the novel The Copper Sun. http://sharondraper.com/bookdetail.asp?id=20
How Slavery Affected African American Families: An essay, by Heather Andrea Williams with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tells how slavery affected families. http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1609-1865/essays/aafamilies.htm
Quiz: What do you know about slavery?: This quiz put out by Business Week covers major events in the history of slavery in the United States? How much do you know? http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/07/slavery_quiz/index_01.htm