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100 short poems+pics+prose on Americana designed for classroom use grades 4-12.
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w:Sn | |  | | Vortex
From 1854-61, Americans were drawn into the vortex of Civil War. Among these unfortunates are John Saxton, only son of a rich Boston shipping baron and his wife Virginia the daughter of a black undertaker.
VORTEX
It contains the basic premise (in that it deals with the struggle of black Americans trying to gain their civil rights denied them by slavery in the South and the Fugitive Act of 1850 in the North.)
Boston, long before the Civil War began, was the nexus of a social/political struggle against slavery in the USA. For example, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' by Harriet Beecher Stowe was published there in 1852. After the famous 'Tea Party' of 1773 and the Irish immigrations of1849, it is not surprising that Bostonians of all social stripes were considered anti-establishment. However because of |
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Operation Oboe
by Miller Caldwell
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 A delightfully rare Historical Novel. 85% a biography of a spy, musician, mother and her neice trapped behind German lines in World War I. This background led to a diplomatic post in World War II. Aged 92, Vera disclosed her past life one year before |
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