12 yo African American girl is taught to read by Nightjohn, an escaped slave who knows the value of education.
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Abraham Lincoln: Letters from a Slave Girl
A fact-filled fictional correspondence between President Abraham Lincoln and a 12 yo African American slave girl during the American Civil War. A Dear Mr. President Book.
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Picture book depicts generations of African American women from author’s family and their special quilts containing secret messages and maps to freedom
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Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
12 yo African American orphan boy, a former slave, and his older brother, a runaway and a Union veteran of the Civil War, set out from their South Carolina plantation to claim their own Forty Acres. Along the way to Georgia they are joined by an 8 yo slave girl and others. They eventually create a successful farm, but are threatened with loss when the rules are changed.
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