To Be a Slave
Item
Title
To Be a Slave
This edition
"To Be a Slave" . Ed. Julius Lester. Illus. Tom Feelings. New York: Dial, 1968. 160 pp.
Other editions, reprints, and translations
• Repr. London: Longman Young Books, 1970.
• Repr. New York: Dell, 1970. 158 pp.; repr. 1975 (Dell Yearling). 160 pp.
• Repr. Harmondsworth: Puffin, 1973. 156 pp.; 1984. 122 pp.
• Repr. New York: Scholastic, 1986. 160 pp.
• Repr. New York: Dial, 1998. 160 pp. ("30th anniversary edition")
• Repr. New York: Puffin, 2000, 2005. 160 pp.
Table of contents
Author's note -- Prologue -- [ch.] 1. To be a slave -- [ch.] 2. The auction block -- [ch.] 3. The plantation -- [ch.] 4. Resistance to slavery -- 1 -- [ch.] 5. Resistance to slavery -- 2 -- [ch.] 6. Emancipation -- [ch.] 7. After emancipation -- Epilogue -- Bibliography.
Reviews and notices of anthology
• Newbery Honor Book, 1969.
Commentary on anthology
• This is "an excellent book of selections from slave narratives which even junior high school readers will find moving" (Dorothy Sterling. "What's Black and White and Read All Over?" "English Journal" 58.6 (1969): 817-32, at 823).
• Alternates "excerpts from [slave] narratives with the editor's explanatory comments" (Kinnamon 1997: 479).
• "A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century" (WorldCat).
Cited in
Kinnamon 1997: 479]
Item Number
A0086