Freedom's Children: The Passage from Emancipation to the Great Migration - Hardcover

Thomas, Velma Maia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0609604813 ISBN 13: 9780609604816

Publisher: Crown, 2000

Synopsis

This sequel to 1998's award-winning Lest We Forget chronicles the jubilation and despair of newly freed slaves turned loose, as Frederick Douglass put it, "to the wrath of our infuriated masters."

Without land, money or education, former slaves had to fend for themselves in the hostile environment of a vanquished South. Covering the period from the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation to the start of the Great Migration, Freedom's Children tells the stories of courageous African-Americans who struggled to construct schools and establish businesses while trying to reunite families scattered by slavery. Even the creation of the Freedmen's Bureau could do little to provide real help. So they learned to make their own opportunities, often in other parts of the country.

Extraordinary interactive elements bring the lives of these American heroes into chilling focus. Readers can examine the "Freedman's Third Reader" used to teach former slaves to read, open a change pouch and touch "script" money paid to sharecroppers for use in the company store, peruse an account book from the Freedman's Bank, and much more. Freedom's Children is an unforgettable reading -- and interactive -- experience.

About this title

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

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to 1998's award-winning <b>Lest We Forget</b> chronicles the jubilation and despair of newly freed slaves turned loose, as Frederick Douglass put it, "to the wrath of our infuriated masters."<br><br>Without land, money or education, former slaves had to fend for themselves in the hostile environment of a vanquished South. Covering the period from the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation to the start of the Great Migration, Freedom's Children tells the stories of courageous African-Americans who struggled to construct schools and establish businesses while trying to reunite families scattered by slavery. Even the creation of the Freedmen's Bureau could do little to provide real help. So they learned to make their own opportunities, often in other parts of the country.<br><br>Extraordinary interactive elements bring the lives of these American heroes into chilling focus. Readers can examine the "Freedman's Third Reader" used to teach former slaves to read, open

Edition details

• Publisher: Crown
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0609604813
• ISBN 13: 9780609604816
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32