The Freedman's Third Reader,
by Israel P. Warren.
(Boston: American Tract Society, 1866)

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Resembling texts used in Northern schools, books produced for freedpeople included practical advice on everyday matters and moral instructions, as well as standard lessons.

The Freedman's Third Reader contained a lesson on Phyllis Wheatley, an African-American poet who lived at the time of the American Revolution.