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Title: Romanticizes Slavery
Review: I find this book to be extremely inaccurate and that it romanticizes slavery, giving the reader the opinion that slavery wasn't as bad as historians have made it out to be. It was written by a white author during a time when things of this nature weren't really discussed. I think the tag line on the back of the book states something along the lines of "You have to work to be free". Who says Amos wasn't free when he lived with his family in Africa? So he had to become a slave to figure out what it meant to be free? It gives young children the wrong idea about what really happened during this time. To Be A Slave by Lester is far better than this book.
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