Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation

Benjamin Holmes, a young slave apprenticed to a tailor in Charleston, South Carolina, practices reading every chance he gets, a skill that comes in handy when his employer leaves town and he is put in a slave prison where his fellow inmates listen as he reads aloud the news of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
2010
9780802853196
book
Lexile: 
670

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