
Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation
About this book
Young Benjamin Holmes, a slave in Charleston who has taught himself to read, reads Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation to his fellow slaves in prison.
Subjects
United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln)Emancipation ProclamationUnited StatesSlavesEmancipationJuvenile literatureEmancipation Proclamation (United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln))Slavery, united statesSlavery, united states, juvenile literatureEmancipation proclamation