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Day of Tears - Hardcover

Lester, Julius

 
9780786804900: Day of Tears
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0786804904 ISBN 13: 9780786804900
Verlag: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Since their mother Fanny left, Emma has taken care of the Butler children, Sarah and Frances. She wants to raise them to have good hearts, as a rift in morals has ripped the Butler household apart: Sarah and their mother oppose the inhumanity of slavery while Frances and their father Pierce believe in the Southern lifestyle and treatment of blacks. Now, to pay off mounting gambling debts, Pierce decides to cash in on his "assets" and host the biggest slave auction in American history, at the price of his humanity. During those two days in Georgia, the skies weep on the proceedings below, for although Butler promises Emma's parents not to sell her, money, desperation, and greed enable him to justify his any misdeed. Through flashbacks and flash-forwards, and shifting first-person points of view, readers will travel with Emma and others through time and place, and come to understand that every decision has its consequences, and final judgment is passed down not by man, but by his maker. Julius Lester is a master of storytelling and transforms this little known piece of American history into one of the most dramatic and impressive works of his brilliant career.

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Verlag
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0786804904
ISBN 13 
9780786804900
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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