Freedom's Daughters

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

In the waning days of the antebellum South, millions of African Americans were suddenly released from enslavement. But they soon realized that “freedom” was not free; they were subject to hundreds of laws aimed at preventing them from voting and, in many cases, learning. Were it not for the work of an exceptional group of women—activists, educators, mothers, organizers—the foundations for Black education might never have been laid. With Freedom's Daughters , Headlee set out to write into the rec