The Good Lord Bird

Description

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.

Subjects

award:national_book_award=2013 award:national_book_award=fiction Fiction Fugitive slaves Abolitionists History Fiction, historical Slaves, fiction West virginia, fiction Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) American literature Fiction, historical, general

Read on Open Library More by James McBride

Related Books

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

196956 ed.

Bomb

Steve Sheinkin

20128 ed.

The Good Lord Bird

James McBride

201310 ed.