Freedom's Children: The Journey from Emancipation into the Twentieth Century - Tapa dura

The sequel to Lest We Forget describes the lives of freed slaves who were forced to build new lives for themselves in the hostile, vanquished South, without the benefit of land, money, or education, in an interactive history that elements such as examples of "script" money, the text of a reader used to teach former slaves how to read, and more. 30,000 first printing.

to 1998's award-winning Lest We Forget chronicles the jubilation and despair of newly freed slaves turned loose, as Frederick Douglass put it, "to the wrath of our infuriated masters."

Without land, money or education, former slaves had to fend for themselves in the hostile environment of a vanquished South. Covering the period from the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation to the start of the Great Migration, Freedom's Children tells the stories of courageous African-Americans who struggled to construct schools and establish businesses while trying to reunite families scattered by slavery. Even the creation of the Freedmen's Bureau could do little to provide real help. So they learned to make their own opportunities, often in other parts of the country.

Extraordinary interactive elements bring the lives of these American heroes into chilling focus. Readers can examine the "Freedman's Third Reader" used to teach former slaves to read, open