Unavailable for several years, Virginia Hamilton’s award-winning companion to The People Could Fly traces the history of slavery in Am...
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Aug 29, 2011
Makagbehc6
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This book is very interesting and also sad. From the beginning to the end of this book, it all about how the system of human slavery all came about. For those who are so curious to learn about the struggles of slavery, this book are the best want that with tell you some of the horror of slavery. It with also tell you how slavery come to the English colony of Virginia in 1619. This book also talks about how twenty of African was stolen from their homes land by slave trader, to Virginia colony in
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Aug 29, 2011
Makagbeh
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This book is very interesting and also sad. From the beginning to the end of this book, it all about how the system of human slavery all came about. For those who are so curious to learn about the struggles of slavery, this book are the best want that with tell you some of the horror of slavery. It with also tell you how slavery come to the English colony of Virginia in 1619. This book also talks about how twenty of African was stolen from their homes land by slave trader, to Virginia colony in
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Nov 05, 2011
Crista
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This is a very interesting account of slavery in America. It begins at the first known trade, which is a year before the pilgrims, and ends with the Passing of the Civil Rights Act in 1866. What I liked about this book was that each "chapter" was the story of a person, either famous or not, and their life. The people used were sequenced so that time traveled along with their lives. Some overlapped. Some gave insight or foreshadowing into people and events to come. This is a good
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Nov 03, 2007
Angie
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This book is a great overview of the slave trade in America giving vignettes of different lives of slaves and how they sought freedom. Because of some of the graphic content, I recommend that this book be read by students 6th grade and up. Although an adult, I really learned a lot and am interested in reading biographies of some of these slaves' lives.
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