TO BE A SLAVE

Dial Press, New York, 1968, 2nd pr.  Hard cover, 160 pages.  Former high school library book with the usual markings and treatments.  Black boards with silver lettering on spine; edge, corner and spine end wear; school name and discard stamped on outer edges.  Binding sound with a lean.  Price-clipped dust jacket in clear plastic protector shows wear primarily at spine ends with small losses.  Plastic has impressions and scrapes, taped to boards.  Interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages and occasional age spot.  Black & white illustrations by Tom Feelings. ‘“To be a slave.  To be owned by another person, as a car, house, or table is owned.  To live as a piece of property that could be sold, a child sold from its mother, a wife from her husband.  To be considered not human, but a ‘thing’ that plowed the fields, cut the wood, cooked the food, nursed another’s children, a ‘thing’ whose sole function was determined by the one who owned you.”  This book is about how it felt.’ (from front flap)