Li'l Dan, the drummer boy

By Romare Bearden

Subjects: African Americans, African americans, fiction, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction, Drum, Drums, Fiction, Children's fiction, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Juvenile fiction, History

Description: When a company of black Union soldiers tells L'il Dan that he is no longer a slave, he follows them, and uses his beloved drum to save them from attack.