Janie’s Freedom: African Americans in the Aftermath of the Civil War (1867) (Sisters in Time #14)

Callie Smith Grant
Barbour Publishing (2006)
ISBN 9781597890861
Reviewed by Natalie Novakowski (age 9) for Reader Views (4/07)


This is a story about an African American girl named Janie. She is 11-years-old. The Civil War is over and Miss Laura tells the slaves at Rubyhill Plantation that they can stay or are free to leave.

Janie doesn’t know what to do, where she should go to.  She knows that the South is still dangerous and she doesn’t know much about the North.  If she moves up North, she knows she may lose the chance of finding her mother.

“Janie’s Freedom” has a lot of American history in it.  I enjoyed reading about the history.  I also enjoyed reading about Janie and the things she did. This book has a lot of Christian principles too.  I would like to read more books like this.

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