Light in the Darkness: A Story about How Slaves Learned in Secret
- ISBN-10
- 1368005063
- ISBN-13
- 9781368005067
- Series
- Light in the Darkness
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 40
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-01-04
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Author
- Lesa Cline-Ransome
Description
Rosa and her mama go to school together-in the dark of night, silently, afraid that any noise they hear is a patroller on the lookout for escaped slaves. Their school is literally a hole in the ground, where they and other slaves of all ages gather to form letters out of sticks, scratch letters in the dirt, and pronounce their sounds in whispers. Young Rosa is eager to learn the letters and then the words, because after the words comes reading. But she must have patience, her mama reminds her, and keep her letters to herself when she's working on the plantation. If the Master catches them, it'll mean a whipping-one lash for each letter. No matter how slow and dangerous the process might be, Rosa is determined to learn, and pass on her learning to others.
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Other editions
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- 2021-10-21
- 208 pages
- Ebook
- University Press of Kentucky
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- 2020-07-01
- 232 pages
- Paperback
- Sacristy Press
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