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To be a slave / Julius Lester ; paintings by Tom Feelings.

Lester, Julius, 1939-2018 (Author).

Summary:

A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.

Item details

ISBN: 0141310014 :
ISBN: 9780141310015
ISBN: 9781439511510
Physical Description: 160 p. : ill ; 20 cm.
Publisher: New York : Puffin Books, 2000.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-160).
Formatted Contents Note:	To be a slave -- The auction block -- The plantation -- Resistance to slavery I -- Resistance to slavery II -- Emancipation -- After Emancipation.

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