Journey to a Promised Land: A Story of the Exodusters
© 2019 by North Star Editions, Mendota
Heights, MN 55120. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced
in any manner whatsoever, including Internet usage, without written permission from the
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Book design by Jake Slavik
Illustrations by Eric Freeberg
Photographs ©: Library of Congress, 154 (top), 154 (bottom); North Star Editions, 155
Published in the United States by Jolly Fish Press, an imprint of North Star Editions, Inc.
First Edition
First Printing, 2018
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product
of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons
living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Lassieur, Allison, author. | Freeberg, Eric, illustrator.
Title: Journey to a promised land : a story of the Exodusters / by Allison
Lassieur ; illustrated by Eric Freeberg.
Description: Mendota Heights, MN : Jolly Fish Press, [2019] | Series: I am
America | Summary: “Hattie Jacobs and her family join the Great Exodus of
1879 in search of a better life in Kansas” —Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018038112 (print) | LCCN 2018041143 (ebook) | ISBN
9781631632778 (e-book) | ISBN 9781631632761 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781631632754
(hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: African American pioneers—Kansas—History—19th
century—Fiction. | Freedmen—Kansas—History—19th century—Fiction. |
CYAC: Family life—Kansas—Fiction. | Freedmen—Fiction. | African
Americans—Fiction. | Frontier and pioneer life—Kansas—Fiction. |
Kansas—History—19th century—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.L377 (ebook) | LCC PZ7.1.L377 Jo 2019 (print) | DDC
[Fic]—dc23
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