A Free Black Girl Before the Civil War (Diaries, Letters, and Memoirs)

by Forten, Charlotte L.

Series:Diaries, Letters, and Memoirs

U.S.Growing Up
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AR Book Level
6.9
AR Points
1
Word Count
4,850
Interest Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
4525 EN

About this book

This diary of a sixteen-year-old free African American living in Massachusetts in 1854, includes records of her schooling, her participation in the anti-slavery movement, and her concern for an arrested fugitive slave.

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