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Print Material

Author

Walter, Mildred Pitts.

Title Alec's primer / by Mildred Pitts Walter ; illustrated by Larry Johnson.

Imprint

Middlebury, Vt. : Vermont Folklife Center ; Lebanon, N.H. : Distributed by University Press of New England, 2004.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Pittsburg 1st Fl Juvenile Picture Book	PICT Walter	---	Available

Edition	1st ed.
Description	[32] p. : ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.
Series	Vermont Folklife Center children's book series
Summary	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.
Subject	Slavery -- Fiction.
	African Americans -- Fiction.
	Reading -- Fiction.
Added Author	Johnson, Larry, 1949- illustrator.
ISBN	0916718204