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Emma has taken care of the Butler children since Sarah and Frances's mother, Fanny, left. Emma wants to raise the girls to have good hearts, as a rift over slavery has ripped the Butler household apart. Now, to pay off debts, Pierce Butler wants to cash in his slave "assets", possibly including Emma.
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Juvenile fiction, Slavery, Fiction, African Americans, Reading Level-Grade 5, Reading Level-Grade 4, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 6, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 10, Children's fiction, African americans, history, fiction, Slavery, fiction, United states, fiction, Southern states, fictionShowing 6 featured editions. View all 6 editions?
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Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue
July 2006, Recorded Books
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1419368117 9781419368110
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Day of tears: a novel in dialogue
2005, Hyperion Books for Children
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Day of tears: a novel in dialogue
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Edition Notes
"Jump at the sun."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177).
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG+ 4.8 4.
A Junior Library Guild selection.
Coretta Scott King Award, author, 2006.
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2006.
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"It's been three days since we've seen the sun."
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In this masterpiece of historical fiction, award-winning novelist Julius Lester tells the story of Emma -- a slave of Pierce Butler and caretaker of his two daughters -- and Pierce, a man with a mounting gambling debt and household to protect. Emma wants to teach his daughters, one who opposes slavery and one who supports it, to have kind hearts. Meanwhile, in a desperate bid to survive, Pierce decides to cash in his "assets" and host the largest slave auction in American history. And on that day, the skies open up and weep endlessly on the proceedings below. Using multiple voices, ranging from those of slaves to free blacks, of slaveowners to abolitionists, Julius Lester has transformed a little-known event in American history into a heartbreaking and powerfully dramatic epic on slavery, and the struggle to affirm humanity in the midst of it. - Back cover.
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