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1	Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman more books like this by Dorothy Sterling add to wishlist Born into slavery, young Harriet Tubman knew only hard work and hunger. Escape seemed impossible--certainly dangerous. Yet Harriet did escape North, by the secret route called the Underground Railroad. Harriet didn't forget her people. Again and again she risked her life to lead them on the same secret, dangerous journey. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Outer Lands: A Natural History Guide to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island, and Long Island more books like this by Dorothy Sterling, Winifred Lubell (Illustrator) add to wishlist Did you know that horseshoe crabs have been around for 200 million years? That mussels "spin" long anchor lines and climb steep slopes with them? Do you know what a "Beetlebung" tree is? see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.57! \| first editions
3	We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century more books like this by Dorothy Sterling add to wishlist Including oral history, letters and excerpts from diaries, this is a documentary study of 2 million black slave women and 200,000 free black women in the 19th century. see all copies from $3.99! new only from $10.65! \| first editions
4	Lucretia Mott more books like this by Dorothy Sterling, Diana Engel add to wishlist This book is suitable for ages 9-12. From the early years of the United States, award-winning children's book author Dorothy Sterling brings us this underacknowledged heroine who played a critical role in both the antislavery and women's rights movements. Lucretia Mott exhibited, from her earliest years, an extraordinary confidence and eloquence. ... see all copies from $2.50! new only from $4.07! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells more books like this by Ida B Wells, Miriam Decosta-Willis (Editor), Dorothy Sterling (Photographer) add to wishlist Published for the first time in its entirety, The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells tracks the young Ida through her transition from schoolteacher to a fearless crusader against lynching in the late 19th century. This unique document provides rare insight into the lives of 19th-century African-American women. Features a foreword by Mary Helen ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.26! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Black Foremothers: Three Lives, Second Edition more books like this by Dorothy Sterling, Margaret Walker (Foreword by), Barbara Christian (Designer) add to wishlist Here are three heroic women whose stories, in the words of Margaret Walker, "every woman, man, and child should know": Ellen Craft, the daring runaway Georgia slave who used her freedom to serve the cause of abolition; Ida B Wells, the firebrand journalist who led a crusade against lynching; and Mary Church Terrell, a leader in the movement for ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $11.77! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Making of an Afro-American: Martin Robison Delany, 1812-1885 more books like this by Dorothy Sterling add to wishlist Decades before Marcus Garvey, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Malcolm X, Martin Robison Delany (18121885) proclaimed his pride in being black, and demanded not only emancipation but independence for African Americans. Grandson of an African prince, son of a slave, Delany lived a life of singular achievement: the first African-American explorer to venture ... see all copies from $3.87! new only from $13.17! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelly and the Politics of Antislavery more books like this by Dorothy Sterling add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.49! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Speak Out in Thunder Tones: Letters and Other Writings by Black Northerners, 1787-1865 more books like this by Dorothy Sterling (Editor) add to wishlist This impressive collection, drawn from a wealth of original research into previously untapped sourcesincluding letters, diaries, memoirs, speeches, poems, songs, newspaper articles, advertisements, a ship's log, and official documentsallows African Americans to speak afresh across more than two centuries. Besides the expected voices of Frederick ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelley and the Politics of Anti-Slavery more books like this by Dorothy Sterling add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.90! \| first editions
11	We Are Your Sisters more books like this by Dorothy Sterling (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.75! \| first editions
12	The Trouble They Seen: Black People Tell the Story of Reconstruction more books like this by Dorothy Sterling add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
13	Tear Down the Walls: A History of the American Civil Rights Movement more books like this by Dorothy Sterling add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
14	Fall is Here! more books like this by Dorothy Sterling add to wishlist Explains in simple terms what birds and animals do and what happens to plants and trees in the fall of the year. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
15	Close to My Heart: An Autobiography more books like this by Dorothy Sterling add to wishlist This is the autobiography of a woman whose exceptional social conscience and actions are an example of the influence one person can have on society without being in a lofty political position. As a young woman, Dorothy Sterling's concern for working people in America led her to the Communist Party in the 1930s, a refuge for many with noble ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.46! \| first editions
16	Mystery of the Empty House by Dorothy Sterling add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
17 view cover	Turning the World Upside Down: The Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women Held in New York City, May 9-12, 1837 more books like this by Dorothy Sterling add to wishlist When 200 women from nine northern states came together 150 years ago "to constitute the first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women," as Dorothy Sterling writes, "they were uncomfortably conscious of violating a powerful taboo." The meeting was "not only the first public politcal meeting of U.S. women. It was also the first interracial ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $12.45! \| first editions
18	Speak Out in Thunder Tones more books like this by Dorothy Sterling add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
19	Caterpillars more books like this by Dorothy Sterling add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
20	Captain of the Planter: The Story of Robert Smalls more books like this by Dorothy Sterling add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
21	Forever free, the story of the Emancipation Proclamation. more books like this by Dorothy Sterling add to wishlist Describes the events leading up to the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation that freed over four million slaves in the United States. see all copies from $2.99! first editions
22 view cover	Trouble They Seen PB more books like this by Dorothy Sterling (Editor) add to wishlist Most histories of Reconstruction deal primarily with political issues and the larger conflicts between Democrats and Republicans, notherners and southerners. The Trouble They Seen departs from this approach to examine in their own words the lives of ordinary ex-slaves who had few skills and fewer opportunities. People are by now familiar with ... see all copies from $4.87! new only from $15.67! \| SVS
23	Lift every voice; the lives of Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary Church Terrell, and James Weldon Johnson more books like this by Dorothy Sterling, Benjamin Quarles, Ernest T. Crichlow add to wishlist Short biographies of four black leaders whose beliefs and achievements are important in the history of black Americans. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
24	Communities (American Book Social Studies) by Madison Sterling, Dorothy H. And Ronald E. add to wishlist see all copies from $19.99!
25	The story of caves. more books like this by Dorothy Sterling add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions

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