No More!: Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance (BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION FLORA STIEGLITZ STRAUS AWARD (AWARDS))

By Doreen Rappaport

Book Overview

True vignettes and traditional verse, set against starkly powerful images, tell the story of enslaved Africans in America as it has never been told before. A man who cannot swim leaps off a slave ship into the dark water. A girl defies the law by secretly learning to read and write. A future abolitionist regains his will to live by fighting off his captor with his bare hands: "I will not let you use me like a brute any longer," Frederick Douglass vows. Drawing from authentic accounts, here is a chronology of resistance in all its forms: comical trickster tales about outwitting "Old Marsa"; secret "hush harbors" where Africans instill Christian worship with their own rituals; and spirituals such as "Go Down Moses," whose coded lyrics signal not just hope for deliverance, but an active call to escape. Boldly illustrated with extraordinary oil paintings by award-winning artist Shane W. Evans, and meticulously researched by Doreen Rappaport, this stunning collection - spanning the period from the early days of slavery to the Emancipation Proclamation - is an invaluable resource for teachers, parents, libraries, students, and people everywhere who care about what it means to be free, what it is to be human.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763609846
• ISBN13: 9780763609849
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Candlewick
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.8" x 0.4" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Emotional

Appropriate for a Civil War unit, this book contains dramatic pictures to accompany short stories, poems, and songs about slavery. Language learning through song can be effective.

Valauable Addition to UGR Library

I teach a unit about the music of the Underground Railroad in public schools. "No More" has been a strong addition to my library because of both the songs and the stories associated with the songs. Kids love to hear stories and that makes my teaching of the music quite a bit easier and meaningful.

No More

I would recommend this book to someone who is into slave kind of things because the book is about slavery. This book has different kind of stories about slavery that the reader will enjoy. All of the stories are about slavery. There are also songs about slavery that they sang.This is a true book. Again, I would recommend this to someone who's into slavery.