Book 2014
The Good Lord Bird
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- Publisher
- Turtleback
- Published
- 2014
- 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.