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Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation

by Patrice Sherman

2010 eng

United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) Slavery, united states, juvenile literature Emancipation Slavery, united states Slaves United States Juvenile literature

Young Benjamin Holmes, a slave in Charleston who has taught himself to read, reads Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation to his fellow slaves in prison.

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