In The Night Before Freedom, eight-year-old David and his family gather at Grandma's house for a cherished family tradition: Grandma's annual retelling of the story of Juneteenth. 

Grandma tells her story of anticipation, emancipation, and jubilation just as it was told to her many years before by her own grandmother, Mom Bess. As a six-year-old, Bess had experienced the very first Juneteenth. Before that day, she could only imagine what liberty would look like. But once freedom arrived, would it live up to a little girl's dreams?

From the dust jacket