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To be a slave / Julius Lester ; paintings by Tom Feelings.
- 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.
- Enslaved persons--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Quotations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 160 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- [Thirtieth anniversary edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Puffin Books, [2000]
- 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.
- 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:
- "Published by Puffin Books, a dvision of Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 2000."
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-160).
- A Newbery Honor Book; An ALA Notable Book; An SLJ Best Book of the Year--Cover.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy has facsimile of Newbery Honor Book sticker and Newbery Honor Book printed on front.
- ISBN:
- 0141310014
- 9780141310015
- OCLC:
- 45631865
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