Under the Freedom Tree by Susan VanHecke

Under the Freedom Tree

Susan VanHecke

32 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history poetry emotional informative slow-paced
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Taut free verse tells the little-known story of the first contraband camp of the Civil War—seen by some historians as the "beginning of the end of slavery in America." One night in 1861, three escaped slaves made their way from the Confederate lin...

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