Walter, Mildred Pitts.
Alec's primer by Mildred Pitts Walter ; illustrated by Larry Johnson. - 1st ed. - Middlebury, Vt. : Lebanon, N.H. : Vermont Folklife Center ; Distributed by University Press of New England, 2004. - 1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 22 cm. - Vermont Folklife Center children's book series .
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.
0916718204
2003027716
Slavery--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Reading--Fiction.
PZ7.W17125 / Al 2004
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Alec's primer by Mildred Pitts Walter ; illustrated by Larry Johnson. - 1st ed. - Middlebury, Vt. : Lebanon, N.H. : Vermont Folklife Center ; Distributed by University Press of New England, 2004. - 1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 22 cm. - Vermont Folklife Center children's book series .
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.
0916718204
2003027716
Slavery--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Reading--Fiction.
PZ7.W17125 / Al 2004
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