Book
Answering the Cry for Freedom
- Published
- 2016
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Publisher
- Boyds Mills Press
- Pages
- 240
- Words
- 39027
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28695305-answering-the-cry-for-freedom?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_29
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 7.7
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 1040L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 9–14
- Ambleside year
- Years 4–6 · ages 9–14
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
Even as American Patriots fought for independence from British rule during the Revolutionary War, oppressive conditions remained in place for the thousands of enslaved and free African Americans living in this country. But African Americans took up their own fight for freedom by joining the British and American armies; preaching, speaking out, and writing about the evils of slavery; and establishing settlements in Nova Scotia and Africa. The thirteen stories featured in this collection spotlight charismatic individuals who answered the cry for freedom, focusing on the choices they made and how they changed America both then and now. These individuals include: Boston King, Agrippa Hull, James Armistead Lafayette, Phillis Wheatley, Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman, Prince Hall, Mary Perth, Ona Judge, Sally Hemings, Paul Cuffe, John Kizell, Richard Allen, and Jarena Lee.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9781629793061
- ISBN-10
- 162979306X
Tags
HistoryPeople-African AmericanRevolutionary WarStoriesUnited States of America