Ellen's broom

by Kelly Starling Lyons

First published 2012

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About this book

Ellen has always known that the broom hanging on her family's cabin wall is a special symbol of her parents' wedding during slave days, so she proudly carries it to the courthouse when the marriage becomes legal.

  • Slavery
  • Fiction
  • Brooms and brushes
  • Marriage
  • African Americans
  • Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
  • Juvenile fiction
  • African American families

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