Many Thousand Gone African Americans from Slavery to Freedom

by Hamilton, Virginia; Dillon, Leo; Dillon, Diane

• ISBN13: 9780679879367
• ISBN10: 0679879366
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-12-12
• Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Summary

Unavailable for several years, Virginia Hamilton's award-winning companion toThe People Could Flytraces the history of slavery in America in the voices and stories of those who lived it. Leo and Diane Dillon's brilliant black-and-white illustrations echo the stories' subtlety and power, making this book as stunning to look at as it is to read. "There is probably no better way to convey the meaning of the institution of slavery as it existed in the United States to young readers than by using, as a text to share and discuss,Many Thousand Gone." The New York Times Book Review

Author Biography

<b>Virginia Hamilton</b>, 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 a

Table of Contents

Part One SLAVERY IN AMERICA
Somersett	7	(3)
Quaker Protest	10	(3)
A Prince	13	(7)
A Vanished Slave and His Return	20	(3)
A Kidnapped Child	23	(4)
Jenny Slew	27	(10)
Part Two RUNNING-AWAYS
Elizabeth Freeman	37	(2)
The Right of Chloe	39	(3)
Advertisements	42	(2)
The Gabriel Prosser Uprising	44	(5)
Josiah Henson, Running-away and Guide	49	(4)
A Slave	53	(6)
The Nat Turner Rebellion	59	(5)
Some Conductors on the Underground Railroad	64	(4)
Eliza	68	(3)
Isabella, Sojourner	71	(6)
The Captain of the Pearl	77	(3)
Solomon Northup	80	(3)
Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey	83	(5)
The Brave Conductor	88	(4)
``All Right, Sir!''	92	(9)
Part Three EXODUS TO FREEDOM
Anthony Burns	101	(4)
A Mother's Despair	105	(4)
A Slave from Missouri	109	(4)
A Kentucky Runaway	113	(3)
Alexander Ross, Down from Canada	116	(4)
Jackson, of Alabama	120	(5)
Wisdom	125	(3)
An Unnamed Fugitive	128	(2)
Three Fugitives	130	(2)
Exodus	132	(3)
A Proclamation	135	(3)
Deliverance	138	(3)
The Tide of Freedom	141	(3)
Afterword	144	(3)
Bibliography and Useful Sources	147	(2)
Index	149