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Summary: THIS BOOK SUCKS
Review: THIS BOOK SUCKS. IT IS VERY DUMB, AND WAS A WASTE OF TIME TO READ. I GOT NOTHING OUT OF THIS BOOK WHEN I READ IT. A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME AND MY MONEY.
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Summary: It's OK
Review: This was very sad book. I dont think that this book is very good for little kids because it is very grusome. It was about a boy named Jessie who was kidnapped and then taken to a sip called The Moonlight. He was taken to play his music so the slaves could "dance" and to keep them strong. In the end Jessie was mentaly damaged. He could not listen to any type of music or dance.
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Summary: The Slave Dancer
Review: The Slave Dancer is a historical book. I liked it, but it had its tough bits. The book was extremely sad and sometimes was a little uninteresting. That is why I took the star away. But we must realize that this is a realistic book and shows what actually hapened and how they treated slaves. The author also describes extraordinarily well. If you are looking for a historical, realistic,book and like deaths this is the book for you.
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Summary: slave dancer
Review: The book is vey interesting and it helps you understand what it was like to sail in a ship and what dangers you might encounter in the way it also helps you understand how hard life was in the colony time it also help me to understand more the way they had to see the trobles they incounter in the way to the new world also how was the life of a boy whos only had hes mom to teach him evry thing a boy neads to learn also when he was in the ship he saw some stuff that we wold see in our intired life sou it kind of of helpt us alitle bit to understend what the crew and the slaves had to go trough and what the slaves had to go trhough
this are some sevreal reasons that this is agood book.
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Summary: A Great Book
Review: I think "The Slave Dancer" is a great book. I read it in 5th grade and thought it was really good. I think it is also educational in a way. It shows kids what it was like to be a slave on a slaver in the 1800's. I think that is a good thing for people to know about so, that we don't take our freedom for granted.
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Summary: GOOD FOR READERS WHO ARE ACTUALLY MATURE!
Review: I WAS LOOKING AT THE REVIEWS AND I WAS SHOCKED. SLAVE DANCER IS A WONDERFUL BOOK. SURE THERE ARE SOME BLOODY AND YUCKY PARTS, BUT IF YOU'RE NOT MATURE ENOUGH TO HANDLE WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN HISTORY THEN DON'T READ IT! SOME PEOPLE THOUGHT THIS BOOK WAS OFFENSIVE TO AFRICAN-AMERICANS. THIS IS HISTORY. YES, I GUESS I WOULD BE OFFENDED TOO, BUT THIS BOOK IS PRETTY MUCH BASED ON SLAVES. TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT OF IT BORING, YOU ARE PROBABLY NOT MATURE ENOUGH TO MAKE YOUR VOCABULARY A LITTLE BIT LARGER. SO DON'T MISJUDJE IT CAUSE YOU'RE PROBABLY JUST IMMATURE!
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Summary: The Slave Dancer by Scott Bobbitt
Review: How would you like to be kidnapped by a couple of big black men?Thats what happened to the 13 year old named Jessie in the book called The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox and published by Dell publishing in 1973. Jessie was in the market when two men kidnapped him.They put the boy in a burlap bag and took him onto a small raft.Jessie was horrified.After a few days, they came to their destination.A destination that Jessie had never heard of.It was a ship called The Moonlight. The boat carried blacks that would be sold off as slaves.The boys job was to entertain the slaves.He played music on his fife for them.They were weak from diseases but they tried to dance. Jessie somehow ends up on an island that he thinks is deserted.If you would like to know what happens to him read, The Slave Dancer. I would reccomend this book to someone who is mature because of the language and the situations.A lot of the people are racist in this book and have bad names for African Americans.
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Summary: Kidnaped Boy on a ship
Review: A poor boy is kidnaped and taken onto a ship. The sip is sailing across the sea to pick up some slaves and bring them back to sell them. The ship is dirty and the men on the ship are mean. The book starts out slow but it get better as the book goes on. You get pictures in your head of what the poeple look like. I storyline is a little boring though.
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Summary: THIS BOOK SUCKED
Review: THIS BOOK HAD NO DESCRIPTION AND WAS SUPPER BORING
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Summary: Deadly dancing
Review: Jesse Boller is a New Orleans teenager of the 1800s with a fondness for playing the fife. His musical inclination results in big trouble when he is kidnapped and taken to work on a slave ship. His job on the ship is to play the fife while the slaves are forced to "dance," supposedly to keep their bodies strong.Jesse, who has never given much thought to slavery, recoils at the treatment of the slaves, treatment that was typical for its time, I suspect. Paula Fox does an especially good job of delving into the psyches of the men who voluntarily serve on the ship's crew, people who are not evil by nature, but whose constant rejection of the horror of slavery has inured them to normal human emotion. A shipwreck during the book's course leads towards a somewhat dubious conclusion. For the most part, though, Fox skillfully carries us into the experience on the ship. We smell the stench, feel the claustrophobic crowding, and experience disbelief and outrage right along with Jesse. This book is a reminder of the unspeakable horrors that people -- even so-called decent people -- can inflict upon each other.
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