- Fiction, African American women, Racially mixed people, History
The fortunes of a mulatto girl--as a slave during the Civil War and then as a woman freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and bleak.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Margaret Walker
- First published
- 1966
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audiobooks, POINTS, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780553257915
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First sentence
“"MAY LIZA, how come you so restless and uneasy?”
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