{"product_id":"9780763628765","title":"No More!: Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrue vignettes and traditional verse, set against starkly powerful images, tell the story of enslaved Africans in America as it has never been told before.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoldly 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.\u003cbr\u003eBack matter includes important dates, a bibliography, resources for further information, and an index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Candlewick Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50078695555312,"sku":"9780763628765","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780763628765_p0.jpg?v=1784730992","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780763628765","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}