FIREFLY BOOKS, LIMITED - 55407
Give Me Wings How a Choir of Slaves Took on the World
Composer:
Publisher:
Instrument:
Quantity:
Pickup available at Juilliard Store
Usually ready in 2 hours
Give Me Wings How a Choir of Slaves Took on the World
Juilliard Store
Pickup available, usually ready in 2 hours
144 West 66th Street
New York NY 10023
United States
Changing minds one song at a time. The 1800s were a dangerous time to be a black girl in the United States, especially if you were born a slave. Ella Sheppard was such a girl, but her family bought their freedom and moved to Ohio where slavery was illegal; they even scraped enough money together to send Ella to school and buy her a piano. In 1871, when her school ran out of money and was on the brink of closure, Ella became a founding member of a traveling choir, the Jubilee Singers, to help raise funds for the Fisk Free Colored School, later known as Fisk University. Framed within Ella’s inspiring story, Give Me Wings! is narrative nonfiction at its finest, taking readers through one of history’s most tumultuous and dramatic times, touching on the Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction Era.