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40 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1, 2013
I tried, over and over, to imagine what it must have been like to be a slave receiving the news of emancipation. To be given freedom for the first time in your life – wouldn't that be truly awesome, but also somehow surreal and dreamlike? I imagined that all things familiar and engrained must have suddenly seemed alien and strange.