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Keywords

african american, assertiveness, celebration, family, feelings, freedom, grandparents, happiness, history, love, multicultural, nonverbal communication, parents, sadness, slavery, transportation, wagon

Title

The wagon

Description

A slave boy grows up on a plantation with his family. He hates being a slave and wishes that he could be free. Soon the war comes and President Lincoln sets the slaves free. The boy and his family celebrate as they leave the plantation in the wagon they built.

Author

Johnston, Tony

Publisher

Tambourine Books

ISBN

0-688-13457-2

City of Publication

New York

Year of Publication

1996

Author of Abstract

Abstract provided by Julie Hudson, 1998

Citation

Johnston, Tony, “The wagon,” Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University, accessed July 3, 2022, https://dlp.lib.miamioh.edu/picturebook/items/show/9134.