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    Follow Me Down to Nicodemus Town: Based on the History of the African American Pioneer Settlement

    By A. LaFaye and Nicole Tadgell

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    When Dede sees a notice offering land to black people in Kansas, her family decides to give up their life of sharecropping to become homesteading pioneers in the Midwest. Inspired by the true story of Nicodemus, Kansas, a town founded in the late 1870s by Exodusters—former slaves leaving the Jim Crow South in search of a new beginning—this fictional story follows Dede and her parents as they set out to stake and secure a claim, finally allowing them to have a home to call their own.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlbert Whitman & Company
    Release dateJan 1, 2019
    ISBN9780807525364
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    Follow Me Down to Nicodemus Town: Based on the History of the African American Pioneer Settlement
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    A. LaFaye

    A. LaFaye (the "A" is for Alexandria) is the author of Worth, for which she received the Scott O'Dell Award, as well as The Year of the Sawdust Man, Nissa's Place, The Strength of Saints, Edith Shay, Strawberry Hill, and Dad, in Spirit. She teaches at California State University at San Bernardino during the school year and at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, in the summer. She lives in Cabot, Arkansas.

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