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Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule (Audio Cassette) (Unabridged)
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule - Audio Cassette - Unabridged Author:Harriette Robinet, Andrea Johnson (Narrator) Twelve-year-old Pascal can hardly believe his ears. His older, run-away brother has returned to the plantation with an amazing story: President Lincoln has freed the slaves. Not only that, each newly-freed family can have 40 acres of land and maybe a mule, just for the asking. — Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they c... more »ould take away a family farm. Maybe freedom was something you claimed for yourself.
Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. With the family of friends they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on earth, their own family farm with a healthy cotton crop and plenty to eat. But the notorious night riders have plans to take it away, threatening to tear the beautiful freedom that the two boys are enjoying for the first time in their young lives. Coming alive in plain, vibrant language is this story of the Reconstruction, after the Civil War.
Born with a withered leg and hand, Pascal, who is about twelve years old, joins other former slaves in a search for a farm and the freedom which it promises.
Winner of the 1999 Scott O'Dell Award. A Notable Children's Book in the Field of Social Studies.« less