Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
No. of pages 144
Published: 2000
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A Notable Children's Book in the Field of Social Studies
Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they could take away a family farm. Maybe freedom was something you claimed for yourself.
Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. With the family of friends they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on earth, their own family farm with a healthy cotton crop and plenty to eat. But the notorious night riders have plans to take it away, threatening to tear the beautiful freedom that the two boys are enjoying for the first time in their young lives. Coming alive in plain, vibrant language is this story of the Reconstruction, after the Civil War.
There are 144 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Simon & Schuster .
Wendell Minor is the illustrator of many award-winning picture books for children, including Robert Burleigh's Abraham Lincoln Comes Home , If You Spend a Day with Thoreau at Walden Pond and Edward Hopper Paints His World , as well as the New York Times-bestselling Reaching for the Moon by Buzz Aldrin. He lives in Washington, Connecticut.