Rosetta, Rosetta, Sit by Me!
by Walvoord, Linda
SchoolHistorical FictionU.S.AbolitionistsBlack PeopleNCSS/CBC Notable Social StudiesPrejudice & DiscriminationMinority Rights
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AR Book Level
4.1
AR Points
1
Word Count
6,033
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
80301 EN
About this book
In 1848, Rosetta, the nine-year-old daughter of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, enrolls at Miss Tracy's Female Seminary in Rochester, New York. Although the white students welcome her, the faculty isolates her in a separate classroom and prohibits her from participating in recess with the other girls. When Frederick Douglass learns of this discrimination, he publishes an account of the incident in his newspaper, The North Star.