Molly Bannaky

What an amazing story!! This is the story of an English "criminal" sentenced to be an indentured servant in the "New World" just for spilling milk!! Strange!! Molly went on to do more things considered illegal, she staked land, bought a slave but treated him well, went on to marry him. She also

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taught her children and grandchildren to read and to read the Bible. Molly must have been a one of kind gem to have the character to be and do all the things she did in the face of adversity.Her grandson went on to be a city planner in D.C. and wrote an almanac and some other cool stuff. You'll have to read the book Benjamin Bannaker to find out about all the cool stuff he did. This book is terrific!! I recommend it for grades 4+

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This book is sequoyah winner and is also a true story. Molly was a worker for someone. Her job was to bring the milk from the cow to someone but if she didn't she would be sentenced to 7 years of labor. One day the cow knocked over the milk and she got in trouble but after she served her sentence

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she got land and got someone to help her with the land and was then lived old and grey.

This would be a story that could be used in overcoming adversities in your life or talking about slaveownership.

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A story o an English women, Molly Walsh, whom sentence to 7 years of service in the New World after a cow tipped the milk pail one to many times displays the true story of hard work and labor. Molly serves her time and gains freedom to stake claim to some acres of a vast new world only to discover

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she can tend to her land alone.

She attends a slave auction, buying Bannaky to help her with the crops with the intent of freeing him. However, they fall in love and marry.

This story offers great illustrations of hard work and rough faced individuals working hard to gain freedoms and accomplish great tasks. Children may not understand slavery and the ways life used to be, but can gain an understanding for the need to work hard even when times are tough because great things can be achieved.

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Molly Bannaky is a true story of Molly Walsh, and English woman who was a servant to the American Colonies. After many years of being a hard working servant she is able to be free. After she is set free she wants to buy a slave so that she can set them free. She goes to a slave auction where she

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does indeed buy an African slave named Bannaky. She ends up falling in love with Bannaky and they get married and they both work on their farm together. This is a great history book for children. This story shows the power of integrity and hard work.

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This is a great book to show kids that we can not always judge a book by its cover. It is a good way to see what their perception of society is.

The book is about a girl in 17th century England who escapes the punishment of death, gets send to be an indentured servant in an American colony, who later gains her freedom, and marries an African slave. This is a good book for children ages 8 and up.