Amherstburg Freedom Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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The museum is a curated archive that preserves and shares Amherstburg's stories of the Underground Railroad and the solidarity it took to make it possible.

4 books

Freedom Summer: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Summer

Deborah Wiles

Amherstburg Freedom

Storytime @river_bookshop w/ @Aburgfreedom Director Cari-Lynn! She read Hair Love by @MatthewACherry Illustrated by @VashtiHarrison Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles Illustrated by Jerome Lagarrigue & More Than a Peach by Bellen Woodard Illustrated by Fanny Liem. https://t.co/Lye67WXP59

Hardcover, 2014

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Jacobs

Amherstburg Freedom

#OTD in 1815 (or 1813) abolitionist & author Harriet Jacobs is born.She wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl which is considered the most comprehensive narrative of an enslaved person written by a woman. To read Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl https://t.co/M4VjCsjgbT https://t.co/WSJupTVolA

Paperback, 2001

$5.00$2.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

In the Upper Country

Kai Thomas

Amherstburg Freedom

Kai Thomas’ ‘In The Upper Country’: A tree-planting encounter inspires historical Black fiction https://t.co/4nq59BA6GZ https://t.co/h10BV8AmLE

Paperback, 2024

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Sleeping Car Porter

Suzette Mayr

Amherstburg Freedom

We really enjoyed joining @river_bookshop tonight for their book club. This month's selection was The Sleeping Car Porter by Scotiabank Giller prize winner Suzette Mayr who sent us a recorded message which included her reading a passage from her book on a restored train car! https://t.co/3dgGChmZJ9

Paperback, 2022

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book