Item Detail Information

Book

Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation

Copies

1 Total copies, 1 Copies are in, 0 Copies are out.

Benjamin Holmes, a young slave apprenticed to a tailor in Charleston, South Carolina, practices reading every chance he gets, a skill that comes in handy when his employer leaves town and he is put in a slave prison where his fellow inmates listen as he reads aloud the news of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.