They Call Me Teach: Lessons in Freedom

With a spare, moving first-person narration told in an era-appropriate dialect, complemented by stunning watercolour illustrations, the celebrated duo of Lesa Cline-Ransome and James E. Ransome honour the bravery and generosity of spirit behind countless untold acts of resistance during the time of slavery.

The young man known as Teach secretly learned to read, write, and use numbers growing up alongside the master’s son. And although on this Southern plantation these are skills he can neve...