Under the Freedom Tree

What a beautiful poetic book about a crucial part of history! I LOVED this non-fiction picture book!!!!......more

This book tells the story of three men who were slaves that escaped a confederate camp. It tells their story of escaping the camp and become contrabands of war. Under the Freedom Tree, tells their story through poetry and tells the story of the beginning of slavery’s end. The plot of this book is a......more

Beautifully illustrated, this is a true story about three black men who bravely made an escape from Confederate troops who held them in slavery in 1861. Their success opened the way for thousands of others to make the same journey to seek freedom. Two years later they were legally free by presidenti......more

This book contributes to the vocabulary of injustice children and adults need to learn: own, work, beat, sell, slaves, shackles, whip, chattel, seceded, contraband, runaways, stowaways, “reading, writing--so long forbidden,” war, freedom.......more