Alec's primer /

Walter, Mildred Pitts.

Alec's primer / by Mildred Pitts Walter ; illustrated by Larry Johnson. - 1st ed. - Middlebury, Vt. : Lebanon, N.H. : Vermont Folklife Center ; Distributed by University Press of New England, c2004. - 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm. - Vermont Folklife Center children's book series. .

"A Vermont Folklife Center book"--Cover.

A young slave's journey to freedom begins when a plantation owner's granddaughter teaches him how to read. Based on the childhood of Alec Turner (1845-1923) who escaped from slavery by joining the Union Army during the Civil War and later became a landowner in Vermont.

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African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Reading--Juvenile fiction.
Slavery--Juvenile fiction.

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