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To be a slave.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, Dial Press [1968]Description: 160 pages illustrations 22 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: To be a slave.; Online version:: To be a slave.DDC classification:
  • 306.3/62/0973
LOC classification:
  • E444 .L47
  • HQ728 .M65 1935
Contents:
Author's note -- Prologue -- [ch.] 1. To be a slave -- [ch.] 2. The auction block -- [ch.] 3. The plantation -- [ch.] 4. Resistance to slavery -- 1 -- [ch.] 5. Resistance to slavery -- 2 -- [ch.] 6. Emancipation -- [ch.] 7. After emancipation -- Epilogue -- Bibliography.
Awards:
  • Newbery Honor Book, 1969.
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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Barcode
JNF JNF Chamberlin Free Public Library Juvenile Nonfiction J 326 LES (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34517000117419

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-160).

Author's note -- Prologue -- [ch.] 1. To be a slave -- [ch.] 2. The auction block -- [ch.] 3. The plantation -- [ch.] 4. Resistance to slavery -- 1 -- [ch.] 5. Resistance to slavery -- 2 -- [ch.] 6. Emancipation -- [ch.] 7. After emancipation -- Epilogue -- Bibliography.

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.

1969 Newbery Honor Book.

Newbery Honor Book, 1969.

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