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Let My People Go
Bible Stories Told by aFreemanofColortoHisDaughter,Charlotte,inCharles
By McKissack, Pat & McKissack, Fredrick & Ransome, James
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-68980-856-2
- Publisher
- New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1998.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 1998
Gr 3-Up A masterful combination of Bible stories and African-American history. Price Jefferies, a former slave but now a freeman of color, interprets the ways of God. He compares the experiences of slaves and their masters in early 19th-century Charleston, SC, to those of well-known figures of the Old Testament. Jefferies, a blacksmith, has a close and loving relationship with his daughter, Charlotte, and tells her, in his own simple but eloquent manner, the various Bible stories that help to connect the trials of the Hebrew people with their own. Every tale has an uplifting, hopeful, yet realistic moral: go...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
