Growing Up in Slavery
Subtitle: Stories of Young Slaves as Told by Themselves
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Published: January 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781556525483
Subjects: Slavery; United States; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12); Biography & Autobiography - Historical; Juvenile Nonfiction; Children's Books/Young Adult Biography; Slaves' writings, American; Children: Grades 4-6; Slaves; History - Other; Biography & Autobiography - Cultural Heritage; Juvenile Nonfiction / History / United States / Colonial & Revolutionary Periods; African Americans; Biography
First sentence: By the end of his life, Olaudah Equiono (a.k.a. Gustavus Vassa; c. 1745-97) seems to have accomplished practically everything that it was possible for a black man to accomplish in his time.