
Follow the adventures of three 12-year-old boys, one a recently emancipated slave, as they seek to restore their friendship during the early Reconstruction days in Marietta, Georgia, and then answer the question of why freedom for the formerly enslaved is so costly.


"I'se me...I'se a person... caint nobody own me... " 12-year-old Albert, a recently emancipated slave, tells his friend, Sam, in Terry Webb's novel, Costly Freedom. In this book, Albert, Sam Benedict and Sam's school friend, Will Cobb, are caught in the chaos, desperation...