A review by abigailbat
Crossing Ebenezer Creek by Tonya Bolden

4.0

Oof, you guys. This book. Based on historical events, this is a bleak recounting of the end of slavery and the atrocities committed against African-Americans, even by Yankees supposedly "saving" them. It's a sad slow-burn of a romance tempered by a lot of descriptions of just how horrific slavery was. Hand this to teens who are curious about what slavery was really like, teens who can take heartbreaking scenes of violence and who want to know the truth.

A hard, important book.