Living in the past . . .When Obi left South Carolina, he was a runaway slave. Five years later, in 1866, he has returned as a freed man and a Union Army officer, determined to find the only family he has ever known: his beloved Easter and Jason, the young boy they looked after on the plantation. ...
Obi had never forgotten the sounds of his mother's screams on the day he was sold away from her. Making plans to run away to find her was a secret game he played with friend Buka, an old African who lived at the edge of the farm.When the Civil War began, Obi knew it was time to run -- or be sold ...
A fourteen-year-old Black girl tries to find a fellow ex-slave, who had joined the Union army during the Civil War, during the confusing times after the emancipation of the slaves.
The Game The first crazy thing about that day was that Sherman was absent. This was the day of the big basketball game between the fifth and sixth grades. Sherman was the captain of the fifth-grade team. Big Russell was angry because of Sherman. I was mad too. We just knew that the fifth grade wo...