Prepared at the end of the Civil War for formerly enslaved people who were learning to read, this book was sold at cost. Child retells the lives of Ignatius Sancho, Benjamin Banneker, Toussaint Louverture, Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass and others, and adds poems, hymns, essays and the story of emancipation in the British West Indies.
A moving abolitionist reader that shows what one generation hoped to give the next. Download the free EPUB.