Freedom's Children: The Passage from Emancipation to the Great Migration
by Velma Maia Thomas
ISBN: 0609604813
Price: 32.50

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Publisher/ Date: Crown Pub / 10-2000
Format: Hardcover

Synopsis: Taste the sweetness of freedom and the bitter struggle for equality through the documents that impacted the lives of an entire race. Freedom's Children, the sequel to the best-selling Lest We Forget, is a stirring collection of photographs and removable documents that bring to life the heart-wrenching, inspiring tale of freedmen and freedwomen during reconstruction and into the twentieth century. The story of a people who refused to be defeated is continued through this three-dimensional, interactive format.
Study an excerpt from a schoolbook used to teach the newly freed how to read.

Hold in your hand a grant giving twenty acres of land to a former slave who had previously owned nothing.

Read a confidential message from a World War I general detailing the lower status to be accorded black soldiers.

About the Author

Velma Maia Thomas is the author of the best-selling Lest We Forget. An ordained minister and a scholar, she created and curates the Black Holocaust Exhibit at the Shrine of the Black Madonna Bookstore in Atlanta

More books by the author:
Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation: A Three-Dimensional Interactive Book with Photographs and Documents from the Black Holocaust Exhibit

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