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Author Lapham, Steven Sellers, author.

Title Philip Reid saves the statue of freedom / Steven Sellers Lapham and Eugene Walton ; Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor, MI : Sleeping Bear Press, 2014.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  JB REID    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Children's Department  J 973 LAP    Check Shelf
Description 36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Summary Philip Reid was an enslaved African American who volunteered to work with the delicate plaster mold needed to create Freedom, the statue that stands atop the capital building in Washington, D.C.
Subject Enslaved persons.
African Americans -- Biography.
Crawford, Thomas, 1813 or 1814-1857. Freedom -- Anecdotes -- Juvenile literature.
Crawford, Thomas, 1813 or 1814-1857. Freedom.
African Americans -- Anecdotes -- Juvenile literature.
Reid, Philip, approximately 1820-1892.
Reid, Philip, approximately 1820-1892 -- Anecdotes -- Juvenile literature.
Foundry workers.
Foundry workers -- United States -- Anecdotes -- Juvenile literature.
Added Author Walton, Eugene, author.
Christie, R. Gregory, 1971- illustrator.
ISBN 9781585368198
1585368199
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