01150cam a2200277u  450000100100000000500170001000700030002700800410003001000150007102000150008604000180010104200090011905000240012808200120015210000270016424500760019125000120026726001220027930000370040144000510043852002740048965000220076365000320078565000220081770000330083913438601 20190501172628.0ta050408s2004    vtua   b      000 1 eng d  a2003027716  a0916718204  aDLCcDLCdDLC  alcac00aPZ7.W17125bAl 200400a[E]2221 aWalter, Mildred Pitts.10aAlec's primer cby Mildred Pitts Walter ; illustrated by Larry Johnson.  a1st ed.  aMiddlebury, Vt. :bVermont Folklife Center ;aLebanon, N.H. :bDistributed by University Press of New England,c2004.  a1 v. (unpaged) :bill. ;c22 cm. 0aVermont Folklife Center children's book series  aA 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. 1aSlaveryvFiction. 1aAfrican AmericansvFiction. 1aReadingvFiction.1 aJohnson, Larry,d1949-eill.