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Booktalk for Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis.
Elijah was special. He was the first free baby born in Buxton, the first person there who had never been owned by a slave master.
Learn more about Elijah of Buxton at http://www.scholastic.com/elijah_of_buxton
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Eleven-year-old Elijah is the first child born into freedom in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves just over the border from Detroit. He’...
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Ages 9-12
Date published: 8/6/2007