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  • Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness

    AUTHOR: Daniel Minter, Donna Janell Bowman
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    FROM THE PUBLISHER:

    William "Doc" Key had a special way with animals. Growing up an enslaved child in Tennessee, Doc was sent to plantations around the state to care for sick and wounded animals. When the Civil War ended and Doc was freed, he began to dream of breeding a winning racehorse.

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