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Book

Same kind of different as me

Author

Ron Hall

Call Number

  • 920 H1789T (OSH)

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Publication Information

Nashville : Thomas Nelson, c2006.

Physical Description

245 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.

Summary

The co-author relates how he was held under plantation-style slavery until he fled in the 1960s and suffered homelessness for an additional eighteen years before the wife of the other co-author, an art dealer accustomed to privilege, intervened.

Notes

Includes a reader's guide and an interview with the authors (p. 237-244).

"The amazing true story"--Front cover.

"A modern-day slave, an international art dealer, and the unlikely woman who bound them together"--Front cover.

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