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allyrose_is_awesome 's review for:
Amos Fortune, Free Man
by Elizabeth Yates
This book was published and won the Newbery Medal 70 years ago and obviously that greatly affects the way slavery and racism are portrayed. However, that doesn’t make it any less problematic. To some extent the novel is based on the real story of Amos Fortune, but his story is sugar coated to the point of unbelievability. I would not recommend reading this with younger readers to whom this is geared without having a discussion about the issues with how Amos’s story is portrayed.