A Free Black Girl Before the Civil War

By Charlotte L. Forten

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Women, biography, juvenile literature, Biography, Women, African americans, biography, African Americans, African americans, biography, juvenile literature, Women, biography, Tagebuch, Massachusetts, juvenile literature, Diaries, African American teenage girls, Social life and customs, Antislavery movements, History, Massachusetts, Free African Americans, Race relations

Description: The diary of a sixteen year old free African American who lived in Massachusetts in 1854 records of her schooling, participation in the anti-slavery movement, and concern for an arrested fugitive slave. Includes sidebars, activies and a timeline related to this era are also included.