The children of children keep coming
Subtitle: a griot song
By: by Russell L. Goings ; with illustrations by Romare Bearden.
Contributors: Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988.
Edition: 1st Karen Hunter Pub./Pocket Books hardcover ed.
Publisher: Pocket Books/Karen Hunter Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781416566465
Description: The dramatic odyssey opens with two anonymous slaves running to catch the Freedom Train, where at journey's end they hope to find liberation. Along the way, they encounter fields of laborers sowing seeds, plodding hard under sun high and moon low, working to end slavery. The toilers are sustained by work songs that at one moment express the dreams and fears of the downtrodden and at another moment burst forth with unbound faith and optimism.