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Title: Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence : The Story of New York's African Burial Ground by Joyce Hansen, Gary McGowan ISBN: 0-8050-5012-4 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 April, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fabulous book! For adults as well as kids!
Comment: Great book! Yes, archaeology in NYC! Although this book is listed as a young readers book, I found it a facinating read for adults interested in this subject area of archaeology and black history. I have never found such a great book that combines both the history of a people that few books are written on with a modern day archaeological dig.
Great resource for teachers, black history month and just for those of us out there who are facinated with archaeology.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Book!
Comment: This book wonderfully encompasses a vast wealth of knowledge. Archaeology, history, current events, and modern day issues are just a few things. This book is extremely well written from the introduction, to the archeological dig, to an epilogue that summarized the issues behind the dig. I found it very informative about the history of African Americans during colonial times. I also thought that it was informative on the procedures followed for archeological digs. I really got a feel for the climate, attitudes, and living of African Americans during their first years in America. I would definitely use this book in a classroom study of the early Americans. It presents an alternate view than the pioneering white male view commonly seen during these times. The many pictures are graphic, well-taken and very interesting.
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting and factual data about a people of long ago
Comment: Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence was perhaps not one of the most interesting books I have ever read, but it is definitely one of the most haunting. When the book first starts out, the reader has no idea that what is beneath centuries of asphalt are people long ago and long forgotten. The most wonderful thing about the book was the way researchers were able to construct the lives of those found. I thought going back in the past and intricately constructing their journeys and lives was incredible. I also enjoyed, for lack of a better word, the photographs. Perhaps the most haunting was the one of mother and child. I felt sorrow and pity for those who had to endure such hardships, but who willed something better for themselves and those who followed. Their lives should be recorded and the place where they were buried should be sacred. I don't know how many students will enjoy this as pleasure reading, unless they enjoy finding artifacts, but I am positive no media center should be without this resource. Kids should have at least exposure with this book to know it is out there. It would be a fantastic reference and addition to any collection. These lives should be celebrated and honored. They, I feel, deserve at least that as a payment for a price so dearly paid by many ancestors.
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Title: Jazmin's Notebook by Nikki Grimes ISBN: 0141307021 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation: A Three-Dimensional Interactive Book with Photographs and Documents from the Black Holocaust Exhibit by VELMA MAIA THOMAS ISBN: 0609600303 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 07 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Gathering Blue by LOIS LOWRY ISBN: 0440229499 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 10 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know by James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, E. D. Hirsch ISBN: 0618226478 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 03 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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