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Twelveyearold slave, pascal, is reunited with his runaway brother, gideon, who brings news that all slaves have been freed. Listen to forty acres and maybe a mule by harriette gillem. Thats what general sherman of the union army has promised to give former slaves. The title, forty acres is based on the broken promise of forty acres and a mule. His older, runaway brother has returned to the plantation with an amazing story.
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