Preview of From Slave Ship to Freedom Road Summary:

Julius Lester writes about the slave experience in From Slave Ship to Freedom Road. In a very personal work, he urges himself and the reader to ask penetrating questions about man's treatment of his fellow man. He asks the question, What was it like to be a slave?

He asks the reader to be introspective. The text addresses the emotions, behaviors, and events depicted in the paintings of Rod Brown.

Brown's thirty-six paintings...