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446) Uncle Tom's cabin
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Eliza is a slave who flees a Kentucky plantation after her son and a dignified father figure, Uncle Tom, are sold to a rival landowner. Her Dickensian quest eventually places her in the backwater kingdom of the sadistic Simon Legree. But the film's most memorable sequence is Eliza's flight to freedom across a treacherous ice floe (a staple of the many stage productions, which D.W. Griffith shamelessly appropriated for his 1920 film Way Down East)....
447) Kolej podziemna
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Polish
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"To baśń o wolności i sile ducha, niezwykła mieszanka dokumentalnej prawdy i najbardziej wymyślnej fikcji. Powieść pełna niespodzianek, radości i trwogi - wielka uczta dla każdego czytelnika. Cora jest niewolnicą w trzecim pokoleniu na plantacji bawełny w stanie Georgia i należy do najniższej kasty. Jej życie nie jest łatwe, a będzie jeszcze gorzej, bo lada moment z dziecka stanie się kobietą. Kiedy Ceasar, przybyły z Wirginii...
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"A biography of Robert Smalls who, during the Civil War, commandeered the Confederate ship Planter to carry his family and twelve other slaves to freedom, and went on to become a United States Congressman working toward African American advancement"--Provided by publisher.
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After serving Martha Washington for twenty years, Oney realizes that she will never be a part of General Washington's family at Mount Vernon. She must make a choice: does she stay where she is, comfortable with the family that she has known since she was born, or does she take liberty into her own hands and, like her father, become one of the Gone?
453) Tubman travels: 32 underground railroad journeys on Delmarva : a Secrets of the Eastern Shore guide
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The inspiring, true-life stories of the Underground Railroad come alive for our times in "Tubman Travels: 32 Underground Railroad Journeys on Delmarva." Join award-winning writer Jim Duffy as he wanders the backroads and small towns of Maryland's Eastern Shore and Delaware in search of sites and scenes that will put modern-day travelers in touch with stories from the lives of men and women who set out against all odds in search of freedom from slavery....
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In 1862, Andrew "Andy" Jackson Smith, son of a white landowner and enslaved woman, escaped to Union troops operating in Kentucky, made his way to the North, and volunteered for the 55th Massachusetts, one of the newly formed African American regiments. The regiment was deployed to South Carolina, and during a desperate assault on a Confederate battery, the color bearer was killed. Before the flag was lost, Smith quickly retrieved it and under heavy...