Alec's primer
By: by Mildred Pitts Walter ; illustrated by Larry Johnson.
Contributors: Johnson, Larry, 1949- ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Vermont Folklife Center children's book series
Publisher: Vermont Folklife Center; Distributed by University Press of New England
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Middlebury, Vt; Lebanon, N.H
Language: eng
Subjects: Slavery -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Reading -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A young slave's journey to freedom begins when a plantation owner's granddaughter teaches him how to read. Based on the childhood of Alec Turner (1845-1923) who escaped from slavery by joining the Union Army during the Civil War and later became a landowner in Vermont.