Alec's primer / by Mildred Pitts Walter ; illustrated by Larry Johnson.
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.
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Language: | English |
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Middlebury, Vt. : Lebanon, N.H. :
Vermont Folklife Center ; Distributed by University Press of New England,
©2004.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Series: | Vermont Folklife Center children's book series.
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