Benjamin Holmes, a young slave apprenticed to a tailor in Charleston, South Carolina, practices reading every chance he gets, a skill that comes in handy when his employer leaves town and he is put in a slave prison where his fellow inmates listen as he reads aloud the news of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
year: 2010, 2020
call number/section: 973.7, 973.71
subjects: holmes, benjamin c., fl. 1846-1870, juvenile literature, slaves, emancipation, united states, juvenile literature, active 1846-1870, emancipation proclamation, picture books
Editions
Sherman, Patrice
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers (2010)
Benjamin Holmes, a young slave apprenticed to a tailor in Charleston, South Carolina, practices reading every chance he gets, a skill that comes in handy when his employer leaves town and he is put in a slave prison where his fellow inmates listen as he reads aloud the news of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
Schools: 11
Sherman, Patrice
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers (2020)
Benjamin Holmes, a young slave apprenticed to a tailor in Charleston, South Carolina, practices reading every chance he gets, a skill that comes in handy when his employer leaves town and he is put in a slave prison where his fellow inmates listen as he reads aloud the news of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
Schools: 2