TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lester,Julius
TI  - To be a slave
SN  - 0803789556
PY  - 1968///
CY  - New York
PB  - Dial Books for young readers
KW  - slavery
KW  - fiction
KW  - African American history
KW  - Southern United States
N1  - includes bibliography; 8.0
N2  - "To be a slave.  To be owned by another person, as a car, house or table is owned.  To live as a piece of property that could be sold, a child sold from its mother, a wife from her husband.  To be considered not human, but a 'thing' that plowed the fields, cut the wood, cooked the food, nursed another's children, a 'thing whose sole function was determined by the one who owned you."  This book is about how it felt
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