Rosetta, Rosetta, sit by me!

Description:

In 1848, Rosetta, the nine-year-old daughter of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, becomes the only Black student at Miss Tracy's Female Seminary in Rochester, New York, and while the students are pleased she is there, the faculty is not. Includes facts about Frederick and Rosetta's lives.

subjects: African Americans,  Fiction,  History,  Juvenile fiction,  Race relations,  Schools,  Segregation in education,  Children's fiction,  Segregation in education, fiction,  Race relations, fiction,  Schools, fiction,  African americans, fiction,  New york (state), history, fiction

People: Frederick Douglass (1818-1895),  Rosetta Douglass Sprague

Places: New York (State)

Times: 1775-1865