Rosa and her mama go to school together-in the dark of night, silently, afraid that any noise they hear is a patroller on the lookout for escaped slaves.
No matter how slow and dangerous the process might be, Rosa is determined to learn, and pass on her learning to others..
If the Master catches them, it\'ll mean a whipping-one lash for each letter.
But she must have patience, her mama reminds her, and keep her letters to herself when she\'s working on the plantation.
Young Rosa is eager to learn the letters and then the words, because after the words comes reading.
Their school is literally a hole in the ground, where they and other slaves of all ages gather to form letters out of sticks, scratch letters in the dirt, and pronounce their sounds in whispers.
Rosa and her mama go to school together-in the dark of night, silently, afraid that any noise they hear is a patroller on the lookout for escaped slaves
