New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A story inspired by a brief account in an Ohio newspaper, which told of Gussie West, a freed slave who, with the help of a white man, sells himself back into slavery over and over again to raise money for a school. "It's an account of brutality and friendship, and Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson's expressive folk-style paintings in colored pencils, inks, and dyes show the horror of whippings and the auction block as well as the triumph of cunning escape and loving community. Drawing on slave memoirs, Rosen imagines Pompey Walker telling his story, an elderly man remembering and talking to the children in his school." (NYPL) Author's note. Slightly oversized format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-15200114X.