Unavailable for several years, Virginia Hamilton's award-winning companion to <i>The People Could Fly</i> traces the history of slavery in America in the voices and stories of those who lived it. Leo and Diane Dillon's brilliant black-and-white illustrations echo the stories' subtlety and power, making this book as stunning to look at as it is to read.<br><br>“There is probably no better way to convey the meaning of the institution of slavery as it existed in the United States to young readers than by using, as a text to share and discuss, <i>Many Thousand Gone</i>.”<br>—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>