My name is James Madison Hemings by Winter, Jonah 

BTSB Prebound(Schwartz & Wade Books, 2016)

BTSB #: 956915 Available

Dewey: 973.4/BAges: 5-9   
AR: 4.9 LG RC: 5.3 3-5 Lexile: 910 AD F&P: V

Genres:

Subjects: Hemings, Madison,|d1805-1877 Jefferson, Thomas,|d1743-1826 - Relations with women Jefferson, Thomas,|d1743-1826 - Family Hemings, Sally Freedmen Slaves

Summary: A powerful picture book about the child of founding father Thomas Jefferson and the enslaved Sally Hemings.

Poet : the remarkable story of George Moses Horton by Tate, Don 

Paperback(Peachtree, 2018)

BTSB #: 872710 Available

Dewey: 811/BAges: 6-9   
AR: 4.5 LG RC: 4.5 3-5 Lexile: 730 F&P: S

Genres:

Subjects: Horton, George Moses,|d1798?-approximately 1880 American poets African American poets Slaves Freedmen

Summary: North Carolina slave George Moses Horton taught himself to read and became the first African American to be published in the South, protesting slavery in the form of verse.