Light In The Darkness: A Story About How Slaves Learned in Secret A Story About How Slaves Learned in Secret (Hardcover)
| Author: Lesa/ Ransome Cline-Ransome | Illustrator: James E. Ransome |
Product Details:
Publish Date: 1/29/2013
Pages:
40
Age Range:
10 to 13
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| Rosa and her mama go to school together in the dark of night, silently, afraid that any noise they hear is a patroller on the lookout for escaped slaves. Their school is literally a hole in the ground, where they and other slaves of all ages gather to form letters out of sticks, scratch letters in the dirt, and pronounce their sounds in whispers. Full color. |













