Full name: Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom

Author: Virginia Hamilton Year: 1993 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Children, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780679879367 0679879366

Unavailable for several years, Virginia Hamilton's award-winning companion to The People Could Fly traces the history of slavery in America in the voices and stories of those who lived it. Leo and Diane Dillon's brilliant black-and-white illustrations echo the stories' subtlety and power, making this book as stunning to look at as it is to read. "There is probably no better way to convey the meaning of the institution of slavery as it existed in the United States to young readers than by using, as a text to share and discuss, Many Thousand Gone." --The New York Times Book Review Similar books: Escape on the Pearl by Mary Kay Ricks Many Thousands Gone by Ira Berlin Beyond the River by Ann Hagedorn Soul by Soul by Walter Johnson Inhuman Bondage by David Brion Davis From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin The Slave Community by John W. Blassingame 5,000 Miles to Freedom by Judith Bloom Fradin If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine The Peculiar Institution by Kenneth M. Stampp Bound for Canaan by Fergus M. Bordewich American Uprising by Daniel Rasmussen Generations of Captivity by Ira Berlin Down by the Riverside by Charles Joyner Mutiny on the Amistad by Howard Jones Twelve Days in May by Larry Dane Brimner Wheels of Change by Sue Macy If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 by Ann McGovern If You Lived with the Iroquois by Ellen Levine The Great Fire by Jim Murphy