![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the fact that she always lacked food, enough time to sleep, and proper clothing, she treasured what she believed the most important thing, her family, because that brought their lives together. ![]() While Ann’s face seems unreadable, within her eyes holds a look of determination, bravery, and courage that deeply displays her character.Īnn Maria Weems, who was born a slave on the Prices’ farm in Rockville, Maryland, lived and worked with her family, which included her three brothers, Augustus, Addison, and Joseph, her sister Catharine, and her Mamma and Papa. ![]() Naturally because of her disguise, she’s dressed in a suit and tie and a black cap, with her hair cut short. iii in a black and white photograph, taken shortly before she crossed the border to free land. Disguising as a coach boy by the name of Joseph Wright, Ann is shown on p. Carbone vividly portrays what a life in slavery felt like as a young girl living in the mid 1800s. Based on this young girl’s account of her life and her dramatic journey from a life of slavery to freedom, Elisa Carbone wrote a historical novel which is titled “Stealing Freedom.” After the book was published by Dell Yearling in New York, in 1998, it was later nominated an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and a Joan G. “I’m free, I’m free, I’m free…” Ann Maria Weems’s heart pounded the resounding rhythm again and again. ![]()
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