![]() ![]() The situation seems hopeless, except that Martha Tom teaches Little Mo’s family how to walk on water to their freedom. Soon afterwards, Little Mo’s mother finds out that she is going to be sold. A friendship begins between Martha Tom and the slave’s family, most particularly his young son, Little Mo. Martha Tom, a young Choctaw girl, knows better than to cross Bok Chitto, but one day-in search of blackberries-she disobeys her mother and finds herself on the other side. Thus begins Crossing Bok Chitto, told by award-winning Choctaw storyteller Tim Tingle and brought to life with the rich illustrations of Jeanne Rorex Bridges. If a slave escaped and made his way across Bok Chitto, the slave was free. On the other side lived the plantation owners and their slaves. On one side of the river lived the Choctaws. In the days before the War Between the States, in the days before the Trail of Tears, Bok Chitto was a boundary. Martha shows Lil Mo the secret river crossing, a shallow underwater pathway made of stones the Choctaw laid long ago. He meets Martha Tom, a Choctaw girl, when she crosses the Bok Chitto River to pick blackberries. ![]() There is a river called Bok Chitto that cuts through Mississippi. Lil Mo is one of two children in a black family enslaved on a Mississippi plantation in 1808. ![]()
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