Long Journey Home

by Julius Lester

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These stories from black history are about ordinary people and their extraordinary lives. There is Rambler, the lonely blues singer who never found a home; Ben, the "perfect" slave; and Jake and Mandy, forced apart when she is sold. "A successful evocation of the Black experience."

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