Day of Tears
A Novel in Dialogue
Reading Level-Grade 4
Southern states, fiction
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Slavery, fiction
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United states, fiction
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Slavery
African Americans
Social life and customs
Children's fiction
Juvenile fiction
Fiction
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 slave…
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