Zack
by William Bell; Joseph Daniel FiedlerFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-06-01
Publisher(s): Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Summary
The son of a Jewish father and black mother, high school senior Zack has never been allowed to meet his mother's family, but after doing a research project on a former slave, he travels from his home in Canada to Natchez, Mississippi to find his grandfather.
Author Biography
William Bell is the author of Crabbe's Journey and Forbidden City, which has been translated into eight languages. He holds master's degrees in both literature and education. Currently the head of English at Orillia Collegiate, Ontario, he has also taught at the University of British Columbia as well as colleges in Beijing and Harbin in China.
Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction: The Northwest Territory
Black Pathfinders and Native Americans
War, Race, and Slavery in the Ohio Valley
Pioneer Farmers of the Ohio Valley
The Determination of Sarah Jane Woodson
Peter H. Clark's Cincinnati
A Railroad's "Fierce Passions"
The Malvins of Cleveland
The Fight for Liberty in Indiana
"Warfare and Strife" in Illinois
The "Order of the Men of Oppression"
The Iowa of Alexander Clark
Wisconsin Battles "The Heel of Oppression"
The Greys of Minnesota
From Missouri to Kansas: The Odyssey of Henry Clay Bruce
From "Alien and Stranger" to U.S. Army Officer
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
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