The road to freedom
Subtitle: a story of the Reconstruction
By: Jabari Asim.
Series: Jamestown's American portraits
Publisher: Waterbird Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Columbus, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
Subjects: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- South Carolina -- Juvenile fiction.; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Juvenile fiction.; African Americans -- Fiction.; Fathers and sons -- Fiction.; Slavery -- Fiction.; Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: From 1865 to 1869, freed slaves Ezra--ten years old at the end of the Civil War--and his father deal with their newfound liberty, traveling from their former master's North Carolina plantation to finally settle in a community of free blacks in Charleston, South Carolina, where they gain education and professions.