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Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation

Name: Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation
Author: Velma Maia Thomas
ISBN: 9780609600306

by Velma Maia Thomas

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Pages: 32
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780609600306

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Overview of Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation

This richly designed historical document is an ingenious, interactive, three-dimensional experience that dramatically addresses the painful history of America and the slave trade. Based on the Black Holocaust Exhibit, Lest We Forget is history brought to life by Velma Maia Thomas, curator. Accompanying the book's documents, Thomas' exquisite prose is interwoven with the moving words of slaves themselves. Photos.

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School Library Journal

Young Adult. No matter how much one has read about the degradation of slavery, the images and the words in this book will have a firm impact on its audience. A three-dimensional interactive book, it contains reproductions of photographs and documents from the Black Holocaust Exhibit that was conceived and developed by the author. By combining highly effective and readable text with photographs, news clipping, drawings, and facsimilies of documents, Thomas shares with her readers the details of virtually every aspect of slave life from the horrors of slave ships to the dangers of trying to escape. Throughout the assortment of pop-out and pull-out replicas, points are raised that will lead to classroom discussion. With its inclusion of documents such as a receipt for a slave woman or the freedom papers of a former slave, those discussions will be given an added dimension.Peggy Bercher, Fairfax County Public Library, VA

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Lest We Forget, a collection of stirring historic papers, memoirs, personal effects, and photographs, is a tribute to enslaved men and women and gives voice to those whose cries and words were silenced. The book chronicles the unyielding strength of millions of people and is interactive: Remove a receipt for a woman sold into slavery from an envelope, or read a former slave's freedom papers.