Ben And The Emancipation Proclamation

Name: Ben And The Emancipation Proclamation
SKU: 9780802853196
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Ben, a young slave, uses every chance he gets to teach himself to read, practicing with the words he sees on street signs and in shop windows and even in cast-off newspapers he finds in the gutter.

But after the Civil War breaks out, his master leaves town and Ben finds himself in a slave prison. One night, the prisoners bribe a guard to get their hands on a newspaper, and to the applause of his fellow slaves, Ben reads aloud the momentous news of Mr. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation – surely one of the most remarkable readings of that document ever.

Based on the true story of Benjamin Holmes, Pat Sherman’s stirring text and the memorable illustrations of Coretta Scott King medalist Floyd Cooper pay tribute to the power of freedom – and to the power of the written word.

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SKU (ISBN): 9780802853196
ISBN10: 0802853196
Pat Sherman | Illustrator: Floyd Cooper
Binding: Cloth Text
Published: November 2009
Eerdmans Books For Young Readers
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.