To be a slave
By: Julius Lester ; paintings by Tom Feelings.
Contributors: Feelings, Tom, ill.
Edition: Puffin Modern Classic ed.
Series: Puffin modern classics
Publisher: Puffin Books
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Slaves -- United States -- Quotations -- Juvenile literature.; Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.; Slave trade.
Genres: Quotations; Juvenile literature.
Description: 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.
Notes: First published in the U.S.A.: Dial Books, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references

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Table of contents: title: To be a slave; title: The auction block; title: The plantation; title: Resistance to slavery 1; title: Resistance to slavery 2; title: Emancipation; title: After Emancipation; title: Epilogue.