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Author Lester, Julius, 1939-2018.

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

Publication Info. New York : Puffin Books, 2005.
©1968

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  J LESTER    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Teen  TEEN PB LES    Check Shelf
Edition Puffin Modern Classics edition.
Description 160 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Series Puffin modern classics
Puffin modern classics.
Note First published in the U.S.A.: 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-160).
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.
Subject Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions.
Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.
Slave trade.
Enslaved persons -- United States -- Quotations -- Juvenile literature.
Local Subject Trafficking in enslaved persons.
Added Author Feelings, Tom, illustrator.
ISBN 0142403865 paperback
1415643547 BWI bdg.
Standard No. 9780142403860
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