Journey to a Promised Land: A Story of the Exodusters (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781631632761)

Hattie Jacobs has a secret dream: to go to school to become a teacher. But her parents were formerly enslaved and are struggling to survive in Nashville, Tennessee, after Reconstruction. When the Jacobs family joins the Great Exodus of 1879 to Kansas, their journey in search of a better life is filled with danger and hardship. Will they make it to the Mississippi River unharmed? What will be waiting for them in Kansas, and will it live up to their dreams?

It's the storytellers that preserve a nation's history. But what happens when some stories are silenced? The I Am America series features fictional stories based on important historical events about people whose voices have been excluded, lost, or forgotten over time.

Author: Allison Lassieur
ISBN-10: 1631632760
ISBN-13: 9781631632761
Publisher: Jolly Fish Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2019
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.40h x 4.80w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2018 pg. 189