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To be a slave / Julius Lester ; paintings by Tom Feelings.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection E444 .L47 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lester, Julius, 1939-2018.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enslaved persons--United States--Quotations.
- Enslaved persons.
- Enslaved persons--United States--Social conditions.
- United States.
- Social conditions.
- Enslaved persons--United States--Biography.
- Slave trade.
- Newbery Honor Book--1969.
- Enslaved persons--Social conditions.
- Local Subjects:
- Newbery Honor Book--1969.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Quotations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 160 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [Thirtieth anniversary edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Books, [©1998]
- 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. Paired with historical commentary and powerful paintings, Julius Lester's book presents what it felt like to be a slave in America through the words of black men and women who lived it rather than filtering through the eyes of others.
- Contents:
- Thirty years of To Be a Slave
- Author's Note
- Prologue
- To be a slave
- The auction block
- The plantation
- Resistance to slavery 1
- Resistance to slavery 2
- Emancipation
- After emancipation
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- "Jacket and bookplate designer: Nancy R. Leo."--t.p. verso.
- "Original interior designer: Jane Byers Bierhorst"--t.p. verso.
- "Jacket painting copyright 1998 by Tom Feelings"--Dust jacket.
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- "Thirtieth Anniversary Edition."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-160).
- Newbery Honor Book, 1969.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Tehon Collection copy has Newbery Honor Book sticker on dust jacket.
- Tehon Collection copy is "2" printing.
- ISBN:
- 0803723474
- 9780803723474
- OCLC:
- 38324405
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