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163 pp.
| Holiday |
March, 2000 |
TradeISBN 0-8234-1484-1$$15.95
(2)
YA
Julius Lester's To Be a Slave includes an account of the auction-block rescue of Eliza, sold by a master who had fathered her: a northern abolitionist bought and freed her. Schwartz extends the brief eyewitness account into a compelling first novel, writing passionately of the privations and cruelties of the old South, and of the love and loyalty of the slaves for one another.