Title: Jamestown's American Portraits
Subtitle: The Road to Freedom
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.
Subjects: History, Juvenile fiction, Fathers and sons, Slavery, Fiction, African Americans, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Reconstruction, American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658, Children: Grades 4-6, Slavery, united states, juvenile literature, Slavery, united states, Plantation life, Reconstruction (1865-1876), Historical
Places: South Carolina, Charleston (S.C.)
Time periods: 19th century