A landmark children's and young readers' book built from the recorded words of formerly enslaved people themselves — drawn from nineteenth-century accounts and the 1930s Federal Writers' Project interviews — with Lester's commentary and Feelings' illustrations. It follows the experience of slavery from capture in Africa through the Middle Passage, sale, plantation labor, resistance, and emancipation. It received a Newbery Honor and has remained a standard introduction to slavery's human reality for young readers.
Author: Julius Lester (author); Tom Feelings (illustrator) · Original publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers (Dial Press), 1968
