Color Illustrations; Children's Book. Spine ends & corners of book covers have a bit of light bumping and rubbing. Text pages clean & bright. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of light bumping & rubbing. Overall, a nice bright copy. --Pompey's tale begins with crows. Horses come next, then dogs. As for humans, aside from Jeremiah Walker, son-in-law of the plantation owner, there's mostly slave-driving, slave-beating -man-unkind-. Working and sleeping in a stable, Pompey dreams of learning, of going to school. But for this boy, born into slavery in the 1830's, the only subjects to learn are the brutalities of plantation life and whatever can be gleaned from overhearing the white children's lessons--.

Youth Fiction Illustrated Michael J. Rosen Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Aminah Robinson Slavery School Schools