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Under the Freedom Tree<\/a> Booktalk:<\/strong> One night in 1861, three escaped slaves made their way from the Confederate line to a Union-held fort. The runaways were declared “contraband of war” and granted protection. As word spread, thousands of runaway slaves poured into the fort, seeking their freedom.<\/p>\n Snippet:<\/strong> Three slip out unseen.<\/p>\n It’s Nonfiction Monday!<\/a><\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2014 Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved. Under the Freedom Tree by Susan VanHecke (Author) and London Ladd (Illustrator) Booktalk: One night in 1861, three escaped slaves made their way from the Confederate line to a Union-held fort. The runaways were declared “contraband of war” and granted protection. As word spread, thousands of runaway slaves poured into the fort, seeking their freedom. … Continue reading Under the Freedom Tree<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booktalks","category-nonfiction-monday","category-picture-book-of-the-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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