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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
c2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The author relates how she was sold by poor parents into slavery and forced to endure brutal servitude in California until a neighbor's anonymous call to the police began her journey to freedom and her subsequent efforts to fight for child slaves.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
307 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Slave narratives are extremely rare, with only 55 post-Civil War narratives surviving. A mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives join that exclusive group. Handed down through family and friends, they tell gripping stories of escape: Through a combination of intelligence, daring, and sheer luck, the men reached the protection of occupying Union troops. Historian Blight...
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