Freedom Ship, by Doreen Rappaport
Freedom Ship is another powerful story about slavery, however the setting is a little different than usual. It is about a little slave boy who works on a ship with his family, and who one night decide to escape to a boat that will take them to freedom. They sail away from the Confederacy to reach the North, and once they get there they have reached their freedom.
This was a pretty good book all in all, in terms of emotional intensity, however it was a little slow. The pages look almost rugged and old, and the illustrations are beautiful. However, the story doesn't have much to it. I don't know if I would use this in my classroom at any point. I might use it for literature groups during a unit on slavery, but this would not be one of my focus books.
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