- Juvenile fiction, Slavery, Fiction, Indentured servants
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and overwhelming.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Sharon M. Draper
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 314
- Publisher
- Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Simon Pulse
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781416953487
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