To be a slave
By: Julius Lester ; illustrated by Tom Feelings.
Contributors: Feelings, Tom, ill.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions.; Slaves -- United States -- Biography.; Slaves -- United States -- Quotations.
Genres: Biography.; Quotations.
Other titles: Cecilia Bard Multicultural Library for Peace; Newbery honor book; School Library Journal Best Book; Horn Book Fanfare honor list; ALA Notable Children's Book; New York Times Outstanding Book; Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
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: Cecilia Bard Multicultural Library for Peace

"A Newbery honor book"--Cover.

Reprint of 1968 ed. published by Dial Press, New York.

Bibliography: p. 159-160.

Newbery honor book

School Library Journal Best Book

Horn Book Fanfare honor list

ALA Notable Children's Book

New York Times Outstanding Book

Lewis Carroll Shelf Award