Best Books 2014: All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom| Nonfiction

by SLJ
Nov 14, 2014 | Filed in Reviews+
A moment in history—Emancipation Day in coastal Texas—is made palpable for modern readers through Johnson’s elegant prose and Lewis’s sun-drenched and evocative watercolors. The book provides quotidian details of this date in June 1865 as a family wakens at dawn to work the cotton fields until the news reaches them and joyous folks gathered to eat, laugh, and tell stories as free people for the very first time.

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