Description: Velma Maia Thomas' awarding winning first book, "Lest We Forget" took the reader from pre-colonial Africa to the Great Emancipation. "Freedom's Children" begins with the problems of the newly freed slaves who as Frederick Douglass said were turned "loose to the wrath of our infuriated masters". This led to the creation of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen's Bureau. The former slaves were set free without land, money or education to fend for themselves in the hostile environment of a south vanquished in the Civil War. "Freedom's Children" follows African-Americans as they try, against impossible odds, to set up schools and businesses while trying to reunite families ripped asunder by slavery. As it became more obvious that the south was not going to offer the opportunities available to the white citizenry, African-Americans began migrating to other parts of the country. In addition to Velma's compelling narrative, "Freedom's Children" will use the sorts of interactive elements that made "Les We Forget" an unforgettable experience. You will be able to examine the Freedmen's Third Reader, which were used to teach former slaves how to read. Open a change pouch and you can hold 'script' money that was paid to sharecroppers to use in the company store. You can look through a bankbook from the Freedmen's Bank. These elements and more will make "Freedom's Children" another winner.

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