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    Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
    Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
    Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
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    Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule

    Written by Harriette Gillem Robinet

    Narrated by Andrea Johnson

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    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. Now all Pascal and his brother have to do is sneak away from their angry master-and find out where the government is giving away farmland. But as they search, they still must hide from men who would force them back to slavery. Will Pascal ever know true freedom? The granddaughter of slaves on Robert E. Lee's Virginia estate, Harriette Gillem Robinet bases this story on research and oral stories of slavery. Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule sheds new light on the little understood time of Reconstruction in the South. Narrator Andrea Johnson vividly brings to life the adventures that could have happened to one small group of African Americans.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 22, 2009
    ISBN9781436188586

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    • 5/5
      Excellent story. I am excited about reading this book to my class of 4th graders.
    • 1/5
      BORING as ever like a a a a a a
    • 3/5
      Pasacal, a slave boy who's about twelve years old, was born with a withered hand and leg, so he never did heavy work. Now that the Civil War is over, Pascal and his older brother, Gideon, and nine year old Nelly, a slave from their plantation, decide to claim the forty acres and a mule being offered to former slaves. They don't get the mule, but they do get the forty acres, and Pascal is determined to help out in building their new home. Can Pascal, his brother, and little Nelly, who's like a sister to him, build a life outside slavery?This is a good book to talk about what the slaves faced outside of slavery.