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Light In The Darkness: A Story About How Slaves Learned In Secret (2013)

by Lesa Cline-Ransome(Favorite Author)

3.9 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1423134958 (ISBN13: 9781423134954)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Jump At The Sun

review 1: Light in the Darkness is mainly about slaves finding their own way of learning and teaching others to read. It starts out with a young girl named Rosa and her mother running to the middle of the fields to gather with other slaves to learn the alphabet and then to read. Every time they had the chance they would go far from the houses and meet up. They all gather to learn the alphabet from Morris. He shows them the sound and what each letter looks like. One day one of the young girls is caught and beaten. After that the meetings were canceled until it was safe again. A few weeks later it was finally okay to learn.I loved the illustrations by James E. Ransome. I thought he did a great job of capturing the raw emotion they would have felt back then. I could feel how they react... moreed when one of their own were beaten just for knowing how to read. As I read this book I learned how unbelievably awful everything was back then. I am glad that the slaves were able to find their own way to learn in secret. I really enjoyed reading this book because I never knew there was a such thing as pit schools.
review 2: Based on an account in writings by Frederick Douglas, this fictional account of "pit school" for slaves should be read by everyone, to everyone. Slaves who knew they'd be whipped "near to death" for even learning letters, slipped away night after night to pits hidden deep in the forest, learning letters, learning to read and write. "Master says slaves are too dumb to learn. You wouldn't know it, 'cause in this school they are taking in learning like it's their last breath." less

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