Day of tears : a novel in dialogue / Julius Lester.
By: Lester, Julius.
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BookPublisher: New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, c2005Edition: 1st ed.Description: 177 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 0786804904.Subject(s): Slave trade -- Fiction | Savannah (Ga.) -- History -- Fiction | Slaves -- United States -- Fiction | Historical fiction | Slave trade -- Fiction | Savannah (Ga.) -- History -- Fiction | Slaves -- United States -- Fiction | Historical fictionDDC classification: [Fic] Awards: D.C.F. Award 2006-07.Summary: Presents an historical fiction written in first-person format that follows Emma, the slave of Pierce Butler, through a series of events in her life as her master hosts the largest slave auction in American history in Savannah, Georgia in 1859 in order to pay off his mounting gambling debts.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177).
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Presents an historical fiction written in first-person format that follows Emma, the slave of Pierce Butler, through a series of events in her life as her master hosts the largest slave auction in American history in Savannah, Georgia in 1859 in order to pay off his mounting gambling debts.
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D.C.F. Award 2006-07.
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