Journey to a Promised Land - A Story of the Exodusters

Hattie Jacobs dreams of becoming a teacher. But her parents were formerly enslaved and are struggling to survive in Nashville after Reconstruction. So the Jacobs family joins the Great Exodus of 1879 to Kansas. Will what is waiting for them in Kansas live up to their dreams?

Info autore

Allison Lassieur once lived in Tennessee and traveled the path Hattie and her family might have followed from Nashville to the banks of the Mississippi River near Memphis. Today she lives in upstate New York and shares a 110-year-old house with her husband, her daughter, three dogs, two cats, and more history books than she can count.

Riassunto

Hattie Jacobs dreams of becoming a teacher. But her parents were formerly enslaved and are struggling to survive in Nashville after Reconstruction. So the Jacobs family joins the Great Exodus of 1879 to Kansas. Will what is waiting for them in Kansas live up to their dreams?

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Allison Lassieur
• Con la collaborazione di: Eric Freeberg (Illustrazione)
• Editore: Jolly Fish Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781631632754
• ISBN: 978-1-63163-275-4
• Pagine: 160
• Peso: 249 g
• Serie: I Am America; I Am America
• Categoria: Libri per bambini e per ragazzi