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ALA 2010 Annual Conference Program and Exhibit Directory

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SNATCH: The Adventures of David<br />

<strong>and</strong> Me in Old New York Charles<br />

Fuller<br />

1:00p.m. – 2:00p.m.<br />

889<br />

Snatchis an adventure story about two brothers,<br />

David <strong>and</strong> Charles, ‘free’ black kids, living in the<br />

‘Five Points’ neighborhood of antebellum New York<br />

City in 1838. While fishing in the Hudson River on<br />

a day in September, they meet a fugitive slave<br />

named Freddie Johnson who they manage to help<br />

elude a gang of slave catchers led by a mysterious<br />

man, called ‘Snatch’.<br />

Charles Fuller is the author of A Soldier’s Play<strong>and</strong><br />

the 1982 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama,<br />

Best American Play, New York Critics Circle Award,<br />

Edgar Allen Poe Award for Mystery Writing <strong>and</strong><br />

the 1985 Academy Award Nominee for Best<br />

Screenplay for the motion picture ‘A Soldier’s

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