Ellen's broom

By Kelly Starling Lyons

Subjects: JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Marriage, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), African Americans, African americans, fiction, Slavery, fiction, Liberty, Marriage, fiction, Slavery, Brooms and brushes, Marriage customs and rites, African American families, Fiction, Children's fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / African American, Juvenile fiction, Slaves, JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 19th Century, Reconstruction (u.s. history, 1865-1877), fiction

Description: Ellen has always known that the broom hanging on her family's cabin wall is a special symbol of her parents' wedding during slave days, so she proudly carries it to the courthouse when the marriage becomes legal.