Jamestown's American Portraits
The Road to Freedom
by Jabari Asim
Popularity 6
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.
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 states