Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule, Harriette Gillem Robinet
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule, Harriette Gillem Robinet
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Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule

Author: Harriette Gillem Robinet

Narrator: Andrea Johnson

Unabridged: 4 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/22/2009


Synopsis

Twelve-year-old Pascal can hardly believe his ears. His older, run-away brother has returned to the plantation with an amazing story: President Lincoln has freed the slaves. Not only that, each newly-freed family can have 40 acres of land and maybe a mule, just for the asking. Now all Pascal and his brother have to do is sneak away from their angry master-and find out where the government is giving away farmland. But as they search, they still must hide from men who would force them back to slavery. Will Pascal ever know true freedom? The granddaughter of slaves on Robert E. Lee's Virginia estate, Harriette Gillem Robinet bases this story on research and oral stories of slavery. Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule sheds new light on the little understood time of Reconstruction in the South. Narrator Andrea Johnson vividly brings to life the adventures that could have happened to one small group of African Americans.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel

What a poignant, approachable book this is! It beautifully and gently presents the problems that black people faced all across the South, in particular, during Reconstruction. Problems that reverberate in our society still today, as we're seeing so clearly this past few days. Problems that stem from......more

This book was great. That's all I have to say.... Might write a review later.......more

Goodreads review by Raelyn

After I finished reading this book, I thought it was an interesting book. It tells the life of a slave, and what he went through. It is not my kind of interest though, because I do not really like history. For those who do, you would like this book. By reading this book you get what the life of a sla......more