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From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:52:21 -0500
This week we turn our attention to Tonya Bolden's book "Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty" (Abrams, 2013).
Tonya will be joining us mid-week to respond to questions. For now, let's get started talking about her book.
I will begin by saying the voice in this narrative struck me as unusual for a work of non-fiction, and also deeply affecting. As we think about point of view, I find this book fascinating. Here's an example:
�As we waited for all of America to repent�to repudiate slavery�we wept, we raged, we prayed. Over beatings and brandings and bullwhippings. Over the rapes. Over families fractured on auction blocks. And then there was all that stolen labor.�
Words like these establish a means for readers to connect the politics of the times about which she is writing to the human costs of slavery, and I say wow.
Megan
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:52:21 -0500
This week we turn our attention to Tonya Bolden's book "Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty" (Abrams, 2013).
Tonya will be joining us mid-week to respond to questions. For now, let's get started talking about her book.
I will begin by saying the voice in this narrative struck me as unusual for a work of non-fiction, and also deeply affecting. As we think about point of view, I find this book fascinating. Here's an example:
�As we waited for all of America to repent�to repudiate slavery�we wept, we raged, we prayed. Over beatings and brandings and bullwhippings. Over the rapes. Over families fractured on auction blocks. And then there was all that stolen labor.�
Words like these establish a means for readers to connect the politics of the times about which she is writing to the human costs of slavery, and I say wow.
Megan
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Megan Schliesman, Librarian
Cooperative Children's Book Center
School of Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Madison, WI 53706
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608-262-4933 (fax)
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