To Be A Slave

Julius Lester

ISBN 10: 0590424602 / ISBN 13: 9780590424608

About this Item

To Be A Slave by Julius Lester. Published by Scholastic Inc, New York, NY, 1968. Republication. Paperback. No DJ. Size 12mo (up to 7-1/2'' tall). Condition: VG. Some edge wear, overall content excellent. 160 Pgs. ISBN 0590424602. Illustrated by Tom Feelings This is a book about how it felt to be a slave. It is told in the words of men and women who lived through slavery. Their stories are stories of long ago. But the power of their emotions will go on forever. Description text copyright 2012 BooksForComfort. Item ID 26463.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: To Be A Slave
• ISBN 10: 0590424602
• ISBN 13: 9780590424608
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Tom Feelings
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Early slave narratives and interviews during the 1930's with ex-slaves provide the source material for this examination of American slavery from the viewpoint of its victims

About the Author

Julius Lester is a celebrated author whose accolades include a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Award. He is also a National Book Award finalist, a National Book Critics Circle nominee, and a recipient of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. In addition to his critically acclaimed writing career, Mr. Lester has distinguished himself as a civil rights activist, musician, photographer, radio talk-show host, and professor. For 32 years he taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He lives in western Massachusetts.

Tom Feelings has received numerous awards for his art in books. In 1972, he was the first African-American artist to win a Caldecott Honor, for Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book, and in 1975 he won a second Caldecott Honor for Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book, both written by Muriel Feelings. Mr. Feelings taught art at the University of South Carolina. It was during that time he published perhaps his best-known work, The Middle Passage, which won the 1996 Coretta Scott King Award. Mr. Feelings was working on finishing his last picture book, I Saw Your Face, a collaboration with the poet Kwame Dawes, not long before his death in 2003.