To be a Slave

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Kids Reference 0-week checkout	R Newbery Honor 1969	0-week checkout	Library Use Only

Youth level.
Thirtieth anniversary edition published in 1998 by Dial Press.
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.

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Personal Accounts submitted by michrigan on December 6, 2021, 12:47pm This is a book written for children but it has so many original words from former slaves that is just as relevant or more so than adult books on African American history and even life today. These accounts tell of events which I never knew or even expected. It was written in the 1960s and is still acknowledged today as a Newbery Honor book. I have read many books on the subject and had courses. None had so much explicit and personal details as this book does -- life on a day-to-day level.