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Many Thousands Gone: African Americans From Slavery to Freedom

Many Thousands Gone: African Americans From Slavery to Freedom

By Virginia Hamilton, illustrated by Diane Dillon

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Grades 6 - 8

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Genre

  • Biography and Autobiography
  • General Nonfiction

Theme/Subject

  • Social Studies
  • African American History
  • African American

About This Book

Features 35 inspiring stories about famous former slaves such as Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and others.

About the Authors or Illustrators

Virginia Hamilton's biography
Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton received the 1992 Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the most prestigious international award in children's literature. She also won the Newbery Medal, three Newbery Honor Awards, two Coretta Scott King Awards, an Edgar Allan Poe Award, and was the first children's author to receive a MacArthur Foundation "a genius" grant in 1995.
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Diane Dillon's biography
Diane Dillon
Artist Diane Dillon is renowned for the enormous body of work she has produced with her husband and collaborator, Leo Dillon.
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Leo Dillon's biography
Leo Dillon

Among Leo Dillon's many honors, he and his wife have received two Caldecott Medals, for Ashanti to Zulu and Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears, four New York Times Best Illustrated Awards, four Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards, two Coretta Scott King Awards, two Coretta Scott King Honors, and the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal.

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