5 livres semblables à La femme jaune
La Case de l'oncle Tom
This unforgettable novel tells the story of Tom, a devoutly Christian slave who chooses not to escape bondage for fear of embarrassing his master. However, he is soon sold to a slave trader and sent down the Mississippi, where he must endure brutal treatment. This is a powerful tale of the extreme cruelties of slavery, as well as the price of loyalty and morality. When first published, it helped…
Thèmes communs : Plantation life, Slavery, African Americans, History
Douze ans d'esclavage
Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation.
Thèmes communs : Plantation life, Slavery, African Americans, History
Mon esclavage et ma liberté
Autobiography of the nineteenth-century abolitionist who advocated the full freedom of the blacks.
Thèmes communs : Plantation life, Slavery, African Americans, History
Le Réformatoire
Gracetown, Florida - June 1950
Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie’s journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory.
Robbie has a talent…
Thèmes communs : African American fiction, Historical Fiction
Récit de la vie de Frederick Douglass
This book is an autobiographical account by runaway slave Frederick Douglass that chronicles his experiences with his owners and overseers and discusses how slavery affected both slaves and slaveholders.
Thèmes communs : Slavery, African Americans, History