num_pages: 48
description: By 1860, there were nearly four million slaves living in the United States. In Children of the Emancipation, Wilma King explains how black Americans gained freedom and basic rights as citizens. Throughout, she focuses on the children whose lives were forever changed in 1863 when Abraham Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation, the first step in granting freedom to all slaves.
language: English
title: Children of the Emancipation
titlecomplete: Children of the Emancipation (Picture the American Past)
ratings_count: 8
publisher: Carolrhoda Books