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Many Thousand Gone : African Americans from Slavery to Freedom
Many Thousand Gone African Americans from Slavery to Freedom
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Unavailable for several years, Virginia Hamilton’s award-winning companion to The People Could Fly traces the history of slavery in America in the voices and stories of those who lived it. Leo and Diane Dillon’s brilliant black-and-white illustrations echo the stories’ subtlety and power, making this book as stunning to ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780679879367
ISBN-10: 0679879366
Publication Date: 1/2/2002
Pages: 160
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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The cover bills this as a "Companion to "The People Could Fly," by the same author. That was a book of African-American folktales, while this contains many short chapters about famous and less-famous Black people during the period of slavery in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, with a short afterword on the period from the Emancipation Proclamation until the present.

As always, Virginia Hamilton is a master writer for children, and the book is enhanced with the great illustrations of Leo and Diane Dillon.


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