3.5 stars. I really liked the animal tales and the slave tales of freedom. The other sections were good but slower reading for me personally. The art throughout the books is superb and moving. Overall, I am happy I read this as I had little to no exposure to black folk tales.

But this solidified that anthologies are not for me most of the time. Once a story is over my attention wanders and its hard to get back into reading the book unless its continuing with the same characters. But that's a personal note.