No More!
Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance
$27.04
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
13 December 2005
Summary
True vignettes and traditional verse, set against starkly powerful images, tell the story of enslaved Africans in America as it has never been told before.
A man who cannot swim leaps off a slave ship into the dark water. A girl defies the law by secretly learning to read and write. A future abolitionist regains his will to live by fighting off his captor with his bare hands: “I will not let you use me like a brute any longer,” Frederick Douglass vows. Drawing from authentic accounts,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780763628765 |
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| ISBN-10: | 076362876X |
| Author: | Doreen Rappaport, Shane W. Evans |
| Publisher: | Candlewick Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Candlewick Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 13 December 2005 |
| Weight: | 391g |
| Dimensions: | 7mm x 243mm x 287mm |
| Audience Age: | 9-12 |
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Critics Review
An excellent account of the many ways in which slaves participated in bringing down the greatest evil in our nation’s history.
–Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Taken together, the text and illustrations make a powerful statement about the horrors of this institution, its traumatic effect on those who endured it, and the remarkable ability of the human spirit to face such adversity with courage and defiance.
–School Library Journal (starred review)
The research is documented, and younger readers can start with the experiences of ordinary people and then go on to the fuller histories listed in the bibliography. Evans’ large, dramatic oil paintings show both the suffering and the protest, as in one unforgettable close-up of a captured runaway in irons, his eyes closed, his head unbowed.
–Booklist
Weaving together first-person accounts by familiar historical figures, traditional black spirituals and vignettes featuring fictional composites of actual people, Rappaport creates an affecting, multitextured chronicle of slavery in America … The symbolic and realistic converge effectively in Evans’s often emotionally charged oil paintings, which capture both the pain and the triumph at the heart of this trenchant compilation.
–Publishers Weekly
Rappaport’s minimal text links many such eloquent examples of unquenchable resistance, both overt and concealed … Equally eloquent are Evans’s powerful paintings. Many of his figures are heroic in scale, their eyes gleaming with intelligence and determination … This is a handsome and inspiring book.
–The Horn Book
Doreen Rappaport
Doreen Rappaport is well known for her groundbreaking approach to multicultural history and literature for young readers. Her many books include “Victory or Death: Stories of the American Revolution,” “We Are The Many: A Picture Book of American Indians,” and “Martin’s Big Words,” winner of the Jane Addams Book Award. She and her husband divide their time between New York City and a rural village in upstate New York.
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