Told from the perspective of a tattered rag doll named Sally, ‘Almost to Freedom’ follows a young girl and her parents as they escape from slavery and start the dangerous…

Tomorrow is Raymond's birthday, and while it seems to him that time is barely moving, his parents assure him that if he finds something fun to do, time will fly.

June 19th, 1865, began as another hot day in Texas. Enslaved African Americans worked in fields, in barns, and in the homes of the white people who owned them. Then…