Children of the Emancipation

By Wilma King

Subjects: United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln), Freedmen, Juvenile literature, African americans, African Americans, African American children, Liberty, Slavery, juvenile literature, Slavery, African american children, juvenile literature, Emancipation proclamation, Emancipation, United States, African americans, civil rights, Presidents, united states, Slaves, Civil rights, History, Free African Americans, Emancipation Proclamation, Presidents, united states, juvenile literature

Description: Explains how the nearly four million slaves and nearly half a million free blacks gained freedom and basic rights as citizens, following Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.