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The Child’s Anti-Slavery Book [25] features the stories of several enslaved children. The book begins with a polemic against slavery directly aimed at juvenile readers, which calls upon the moral authority of the Bible, the Declaration of Independence [ 26 ] and the ‘ natural right to freedom’ [ 27 ] in its denunciation of slavery.
Amos Fortune, Free Man is a biographical novel by Elizabeth Yates that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1951. [1] It is about a young African prince who is captured and taken to America as a slave. He masters a trade, purchases his freedom and dies free in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, in 1801.
To Be A Slave is a 1968 nonfiction children's book by Julius Lester, illustrated by Tom Feelings.It explores what it was like to be a slave. The book includes many personal accounts of former slaves, accompanied by Lester's historical commentary and Feelings' powerful and muted paintings.
The book is written in the form of a diary kept by Clotee, a young slave girl on a Virginia plantation in 1859. Clotee secretly teaches herself to read and write while fanning William, her owner's young son, during his lessons with his mother Miz Lilly.
Pages in category "Children's books about American slavery" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
I, Juan de Pareja is a novel by American writer Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, which won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1966. The book is based on the Portrait of Juan de Pareja, the real-life portrait that Diego Velázquez made of his slave Juan de Pareja. It is written in the first person as by the title ...
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Children's books about American slavery (20 P) Pages in category "Children's books about slavery" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.