Publish Date |
January 15, 2019 |
Category |
Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism Juvenile Fiction / Historical / United States / 19th Century |
Price |
$23.99 |
ISBN: 9781442421134
Format: Hardback
Pages: 40
Publisher: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Published: January 15, 2019
A unique and engaging perspective on enslaved families. A powerful tale of slavery and its two terrible options: stay or run.With a text at once simple, rhythmic, and heartbreaking, Ransome conveys for a very young audience the grinding treadmill of slave labor and the impetus to leave loved ones for a chance at freedom.[A] startling force.[Ransome] succeeds in communicating the myriad and complex emotions of individuals choosing to flee chattel enslavement and the aftermath of those left behind. Without sugarcoating or minimizing the complexity of human emotion, the illustrations communicate what words cannot: the tender love of family, the cruelty of enslavement, the emptiness left after the loss of a loved one, and the ever-present dilemma of self-emancipation for those who lived in bondage.