To Be A Slave

Publication

Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

To Be A Slave

Entry/Object ID

Library.919

Description

160 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. To be a slave by Julius Lester. 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. Contents: Author's note -- Prologue -- [ch.] 1. To be a slave -- [ch.] 2. The auction block -- [ch.] 3. The plantation -- [ch.] 4. Resistance to slavery -- [ch.] 5. Resistance to slavery -- [ch.] 6. Emancipation -- [ch.] 7. After emancipation -- Epilogue -- Bibliography.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Slaves -- United States -- Quotations., Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature., Slaves -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature., Slaves., Slave trade., Slaves -- Social conditions., Slaves -- Biography.

Publication Details

Author

Lester, Julius, Illustrated by Tom Feelings

Edition

First Printing

Publisher

Dial Press

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

New York, New York

Call No.

E 444 .L47 1998

ISBN

9780803789555080378