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{{Short description|Book by Patricia McKissack}}
{{Infobox book <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name          = Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color
| image         = Let My People Go Bible Stories Told By A Freeman Of Color.jpg| caption       =
| author        = [[Patricia McKissack]], [[Frederick McKissack]]
| illustrator   = James Ransome
| country       = United States
| language      = English
| genre         = [[Children's literature]], [[Historical novel]], [[US history]]
| published     = 1998 ([[Atheneum Books|Atheneum Books for Young Readers]])
| media_type    = Print ([[hardback]], [[paperback]])
| pages         = 134
| isbn          = 9780689808562
| oclc          = 36865694
}}
'''''Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color''''' is a 1998 book by [[Patricia McKissack]]. Set in [[Antebellum South Carolina|19th century South Carolina]], it is about a [[Freedman#United States|freed slave]], Price Jeffries, who uses [[Bible story|Bible stories]] from the [[Old Testament]] to answer questions that his daughter, Charlotte, poses about the things she sees around her.
==Reception==
''[[Booklist]]'', in its review of ''Let My People Go'', called it "stirring" and concluded, "With the rhythm and intimacy of the oral tradition, this is storytelling for family and group sharing and also for talking about history and our connections with the universals of the Old Testament."<ref name=buffalo/> ''[[School Library Journal]]'' found it "A masterful combination of Bible stories and African-American history."<ref name=buffalo>{{cite web |url=https://www.buffalolib.org/vufind/Record/993673/Reviews#tabnav |title=Let my people go: Bible stories told by a freeman of color to his daughter Charlotte, in Charleston, South Carolina, 1806-16 |website=Buffalo and Erie County Public Library |access-date=March 9, 2017}}</ref>
''Let My People Go'' has also been reviewed by ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-689-80856-2 |title=Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told By A Freeman Of Color |quote=Readers will likely return to this extraordinary volume again and again, knowing that the answers to life's painful questions reside in the stories of faith that have comforted others for thousands of years. |date=September 28, 1998 |website=Publishers Weekly |publisher=PWxyz LLC|access-date=March 9, 2017}}</ref> ''[[The Horn Book Magazine]]''.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/show/102529082_let_my_people_go |title=Run Away Home |quote=Though somewhat elaborate, the framework is skillfully set up, and the stories of African-American slavery in the early 1800s and retellings of Old Testament stories are relevantly paired and well told. |website=kcls.bibliocommons.com |year=1998 |publisher=Atheneum Books for Young Readers |isbn=978-0-689-80856-2 |oclc=36865694 |access-date=March 9, 2017}}</ref> ''Library Media Connection'',<ref >{{cite web |url=https://catalog.wccls.org/Mobile/BakerAndTaylor/Review?ISBN=0689808569&UPC=&position=1 |title=Let my people go: Bible stories told by a freeman of color to his daughter Charlotte, in Charleston, South Carolina, 1806-16: Reviews |quote= A compelling book to read and enjoy. Highly Recommended. |website=catalog.wccls.org |access-date=March 9, 2017}}</ref> ''Multicultural Review'',<ref>{{cite journal |date=June 1999 |title=Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color (Book) |url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/10757998/let-my-people-go-bible-stories-told-by-freeman-color-book |journal=Multicultural Review |publisher=GP Subscription Publications |volume=8 |issue=2 |page=111 |access-date=March 9, 2017}}{{dead link|date=November 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> and ''[[Parenting (magazine)|Parenting]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |date=December 1998 |title=Bible Books for Kids |url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/1313667/bible-books-kids |journal=Parenting |publisher=Bonnier Group |volume=12 |issue=10 |page=99 |access-date=March 9, 2017}}{{dead link|date=November 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
==Awards==
*1998 Capital Choices Noteworthy Book for Children and Teens<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.capitolchoices.org/sites/default/files/pdf/Capitol_Choices_1998.pdf |title=Capital Choices Noteworthy Book for Children and Teens: 1998 Books for Ages Ten to Fourteen |website=capitolchoices.org |publisher=Capital Choices |access-date=March 12, 2017}}</ref>
*1998 CCBC Choice<ref>{{cite book |url=https://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/handle/1793/6633/CHOICES1998.pdf?sequence=1 |title=CCBC Choices 1998: Fiction for Children |author=Kathleen T. Horning |author2=Ginny Moore Kruse |author3=Megan Schliesman |date=1999 |publisher=Friends of the CCBC Inc. |access-date=March 12, 2017}}</ref>
*2000 Anne Izard Storytellers' Award - winner<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.westchesterlibraryassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Anne-Izard-Storytellers-Cummulative-2012.pdf |title=Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice Award Winner |page=16|website=westchesterlibraryassociation.org |publisher=Westchester Library Association |access-date=March 12, 2017}}</ref>
==References==
{{Portal|Children's literature}}
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[[Category:1998 children's books]]
[[Category:American children's novels]]
[[Category:Children's historical novels]]
[[Category:Novels based on the Bible]]
[[Category:Novels set in the 19th century]]
[[Category:Novels set in South Carolina]]
[[Category:Christian children's books]]
[[Category:Books by Patricia McKissack]]
[[Category:1998 American novels]]
[[Category:Atheneum Books books]]
[[Category:Children's books based on the Bible]]
[[Category:Children's books set in South Carolina]]
[[Category:Children's books set in the 19th century]]