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In 1862, a ten-year-old girl and an old woman start a new life after they escape a slave trader and are rescued by Union soldiers, who take them as "contraband of war" to ...
Although this is historical fiction, it provides a view of slave life, through the eyes of ten-year-old Lottie that is not well known. The pain of Lottie being separated and sold away from her mother is strongly felt as you read the author's account. Fortunately for Lottie, she is befriended by Weza, an older woman. She develops and executes a plot for them to escape from their cruel slave trader. Once escaped they are spotted by a Union soldier from an observation balloon. He alerts soldiers on the ground who rescue them. Since they are property of slave owners they can be legally confiscated as contraband and they don't have to be returned to their owner. The author gives us a picture of these contraband slaves who made their way to Fortress Monroe in Hampton, Virginia during the Civil War. Various organizations provided work, shelter, food and clothing and they also established schools so that the contraband slaves could be educated. In Lottie's Courage, Lottie is offered an opportunity to go north to Boston to attend school but her desire to be reunited with her mother is greater than her desire for an education. So she waits. A teacher can use this story to supplement curriculum about the State of Virginia, the Civil War and slavery. 2002, White Mane Kids,
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