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Lester, Julius Brown, Rod, Illustrator

From Slave Ship to Freedom Road

40 pp. January, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-8037-1893-4
(3) 4-6 The plight of Africans from capture to auction to freedom is told in expressive paintings and a powerful, thought-provoking text. An introduction explains how Lester wrote the text as a personal response to Brown's paintings and that he found himself addressing the reader, "begging, pleading, imploring you not to be passive, but to invest soul and imagine yourself in the images." A list of paintings is appended.
Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.

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