To be a Slave

By: Julius Lester

Lester's first book and runner-up for the 1969 Newbery Medal. First Edition. "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...

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B000HZIJLU
• Release Date: January 1968
• Publisher: The Dial Press
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"