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Author Lester, Julius.

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

Edition Puffin Modern Classics edition.
Publication Info. New York : Puffin Books, 2005.
©1968
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1955947~S1
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Adult Biography  BIO LESTER    DUE 05-30-24
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Description 160 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Children lcdgt
Note First published in the U.S.A.: Dial Books, 1998.
Bibliography Bibliography.
Contents To be a slave -- The auction block -- The plantation -- Resistance to slavery 1 -- Resistance to slavery 2 -- Emancipation -- After Emancipation -- Epilogue.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.9 5.0 7123.
Awards Newbery honor book, 1969
Audience Ages 10 up.
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.
Subject Newbery honor book.
Slaves -- United States -- Quotations.
Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions.
Slaves -- United States -- Biography.
Slave trade.
Added Author Feelings, Tom.
ISBN 9780142403860
0142403865
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