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Jamestown's American Portraits

The Road to Freedom

by Jabari Asim

HistoryJuvenile fictionFathers and sonsSlaveryFictionAfrican AmericansReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)Reconstruction

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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Book data: Open Library