To be a slave /
Julius Lester ; paintings by Tom Feelings.
- New York : Puffin Books c1998.
- 160 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-160).
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.
Newbery Honor, 1969
0803723474
98005213
Slaves--Quotations.--United States Slaves--Social conditions.--United States Slaves--Biography.--United States Slaves. Slave trade.