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Jan 1, 1939 — —· 87 yrs

UNITED STATES AUTHOR · FICTION · AFRICAN AMERICANS

Julius Lester

Also known as: Julius Lester, Lester, Julius.

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Julius Bernard Lester (January 27, 1939 – January 18, 2018) was an American writer of books for children and adults and an academic who taught for 32 years (1971–2003) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Lester was also a civil rights activist, a photographer, and a musician who recorded two albums of folk music and original songs.

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My parents talked in the darkness for a long time, their voices moving in and out of my sleep like the back of a Hippopotamus rising and sinking in the Great Hapi.

— from Pharaoh's daughter

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Day of Tears

2005

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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 slavery and one who supports it, to have kind hearts. Meanwhile, in a desperate bid to survive, Pierce decides to cash in his "assets" and host the largest slave auction in American history. And on that day, the skies open up and weep endlessly on the proceedings below. Using multiple voices, ranging from those of slaves to free blacks, of slaveowners to abolitionists, Julius Lester has transformed a little-known event in American history into a heartbreaking and powerfully dramatic epic on slavery, and the struggle to affirm humanity in the midst of it. - Back cover.

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Pharaoh's daughter

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When fourteen-year-old Talibah and her ten-year-old brother, Adom, visit modern-day Egypt with their historian-father, they become involved in a mystery surrounding Hatshepsut, a woman pharoah, and Senenmut, architect of her mortuary tomb, as well as their own deceased mother.

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John Henry

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Some folks say John Henry was born with a hammer in his hand. He sure loved to pound things And his muscles were harder than rocks. At work, John laid down tracks for the railroad company. The earth shook when he swung down his heavy hammers. John was stronger than the strongest worker, but was he stronger than a ? Find out in this powerful tale.

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