Title: Light in the darkness
Description: Risking a whipping if they are discovered, Rosa and her mama sneak away from their slave quarters during the night to a hidden location in a field where they learn to read and write.
Subjects: History, Slavery, Fiction, Learning, Reading, African Americans, Slaves, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Reading, fiction, Slavery, fiction, African americans, fiction, Southern states, fiction
Places: Southern States
Time periods: 1775-1865