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a novel in verse

345 pages

English language

Published Jan. 13, 2016

ISBN:
978-0-545-93427-5
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The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.

2 editions

Subjects

  • Juvenile fiction
  • African American families
  • Family life
  • Slavery
  • Fugitive slaves
  • Slaves
  • Fiction
  • African Americans
  • Novels in verse
  • History

Places

  • United States
  • Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)
  • Southern States