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Book 2020

Good Lord Bird

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Publisher
Riverhead Publishing
Language
English
Published
2020
  • Fiction
  • Fugitive slaves
  • Abolitionists
  • History
  • Fiction, historical
  • Slaves, fiction
  • West virginia, fiction
  • Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)

Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-nineteenth-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.