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Jamestown's American Portraits

The Road to Freedom

Jabari Asim

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From 1865 to 1869, freed slaves Ezra--ten years old at the end of the Civil War--and his father deal with their newfound liberty, traveling from their former master's North Carolina plantation to finally settle in a community of free blacks in Charleston, South Carolina, where they gain education and professions.

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OL Work ID
OL5721217W

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HistoryJuvenile fictionFathers and sonsSlaveryFictionAfrican AmericansReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)ReconstructionAmerican Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658Children: Grades 4-6Slavery, united states, juvenile literatureSlavery, united statesPlantation lifeReconstruction (1865-1876)Historical

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