Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation
By: written by Pat Sherman ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper
Contributors: Cooper, Floyd, ill
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780802853196
Description: Young Benjamin Holmes, a slave in Charleston who has taught himself to read, reads Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation to his fellow slaves in prison.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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