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MANY THOUSAND GONE: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom.
by Hamilton, Virginia. (illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near fine in near fine dust jacket (previous owner's name.)/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394828739
- ISBN 13
- 9780394828732
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, (1993).. Hardcover -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (previous owner's name.). 2nd printing. A history of slavery in America, written for children, and focusing on those who escaped slavery and on the Underground Railroad. Includes stories of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Josiah Henson, and others. Beautifully Illustrated with soft full-page black and white drawings by the Dillons.
Synopsis
Virginia Hamilton , storyteller, lecturer, and biographer, was born and raised in Yellow Springs, OH, which is said to be a station on the Underground Railroad. Her grandfather settled in the village after escaping slavery in Virginia. She was educated at Antioch College and Ohio State University and did further study in literature and the novel at the New School for Social Research. Virginia was the first African American woman to win the Newbery Award, for M.C. Higgins the Great. Since then, she has won three Newbery Honors and three Coretta Scott King Awards. In 1992, Virginia was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, which is presented every two years by the International Board on Books for Young People, in recognition of her entire body of work. Virginia writes first for the pleasure of using words and language to evoke characters and their world, and in historical accounts such as Anthony Burns, the lives of real people. Secondly, Hamilton writes to entertain, to inspire in people the desire to read on and on good books made especially for them. Leo and Diane Dillon have twice won the Caldecott Medal
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26519
- Title
- MANY THOUSAND GONE: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom.
- Author
- Hamilton, Virginia. (illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in near fine dust jacket (previous owner's name.)
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394828739
- ISBN 13
- 9780394828732
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1993).
- Keywords
- Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Josiah Henson
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American Children's books;
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