内容简介:To be a slave. To be owned by another person, as a car, house, or a table is owned. To live as a piece of property that could be sold... This book is about how it felt. The words of black men and women who had themselves been slaves are here, accompanied by Julius Lester's historical commentary and Tom Feelings's powerful and muted paintings, To Be a Slave has been a touchstone in children's literature for over thirty years. "It is rare to find a book that enables children to identify as compellingly with slaves as this one does." -Publishers Weekly "From history-and for our time-there's nothing better than To Be a Slave." -The New York Times Book Review Awards: A 1969 Newbery Honor Book An ALA Notable Book A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Smithsonian Magazine Best Book of the Year 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.
作者简介:Valeri Gorbachev has illustrated numerous books for children, including ALL FOR PIE, PIE FOR ALL by David Martin and SQUIRREL'S WORLD by Lisa Moser. He is also the author-illustrator of many children’s books, including THE MISSING CHICK. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.