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Day of Tears
By Lester, Julius
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-78680-490-0
- Publisher
- Jump at the Sun Hyperion
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2005
Gr 6-9 This powerful and engaging historical novel is told in dialogue and through monologues. It also moves around in time, from the period when the story takes place to "interludes," in which the various characters look back on these events years later. It begins with a factual event -the largest slave auction in United States history that took place in 1859 on Pierce Butler's plantation in Georgia. The book introduces Butler, his abolitionist ex-wife Fanny Kemble, their two daughters, the auctioneer, and a number of slaves sold to pay off Butler's gambling d...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2005
In a dramatic program of monologues and conversations, Lester imaginatively reconstructs what could have been going on in the minds of slaves and slave owners on a Georgia plantation on March 3, 1859, the concluding day of the largest slave auction in American history. The auction itself and the plantation owners are part of the historical record (Lest...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
