She grabs her younger brother, Zeke, and starts desperately to look for the other slaves to make sure they all leave the Chaney plantation as soon as possible. So when Yankee soldiers arrive and pronounce "Freedom!" she hardly knows what to do first. Mariah, a young Georgia slave, has lived all her life waiting for this day. 8-9) What a way to set the scene! Although this isn't the opening of Crossing Ebenezer Creek, through the use of precise details the author, Tonya Bolden, quickly establishes the time, place, and some of the characters the reader will meet.Ī School Library Journal Best Book of 2017, Young Adult From astride a bay steed, a third white man-crisp, clean shaven, long, lean-looked down on her and the boy. ********** Two scruffy, scraggly bearded soldiers in sky-blue trousers and dark-blue sack coats flanked the root cellar doors.
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