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Title: The Strength of These Arms : Life in the Slave Quarters by Raymond Bial ISBN: 0-395-77394-6 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 09 September, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Strength of These Arms: Life in the Slave Quarters
Comment: Iron shackles, auction blocks, and backbreaking labor portray the harsh reality that many slaves endured. Through the effective use of contrasting photographs, Raymond Bial (noted and extensive author of children's information books) captures the striking inequality that existed between slaves' and plantation owners' ways of life. Young readers will be angered when they learn that slaves ate cornmeal from gourd bowls in one-room cabins whereas plantation owners dined on lavish meals on intricate dinnerware sets in the "Big House". Commendably though, Bial doesn't portray slaves as broken, one-dimensional field hands. Supportive photographs and information-filled text convey a more complete, often unrepresented side to slavery. Readers learn slaves didn't simply passively accept their situation, but forged a sense of community despite their oppression. Bial quotes Frederick Douglas stating that slaves, "were a band of brothers...a unit". Slaves, Bial also notes, held many skilled labor positions crucial for the survival of the plantation such as blacksmiths, cooks, field designers, and carpenters. Bail's well-written, well-rounded look at slavery is appropriate as a read-aloud for the young reader. Lacking distinct chapters or headings, this book does progress logically from a history of slavery to a focused look at slave life on a plantation. An extensive list of sources lends credibility to Bial's depiction of slavery. Acknowledging oppression but moving beyond, Bial gives an honest and informational portrayal of African American slaves' perseverance and pride in spite of hardship.
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Title: Dear Benjamin Banneker by Andrea Davis Pinkney, Brian Pinkney ISBN: 0152018921 Publisher: Voyager Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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Title: Daily Life on a Southern Plantation 1853 by Paul Erickson ISBN: 0140566686 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Silversmiths by Leonard Everett Fisher ISBN: 0761404783 Publisher: Benchmark Books Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $34.21 |
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Title: Around the World in a Hundred Years: From Henry the Navigator to Magellan by Jean Fritz, Anthony Bacon Venti ISBN: 0698116380 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: If You Lived in Colonial Times by Ann McGovern, June Otani, Brinton Turkle ISBN: 059045160X Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: May, 1992 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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