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Susie King Taylor : destined to be free / by Denise Jordan ; illustrated by Higgins Bond.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection E621.T3 J67 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jordan, Denise.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Taylor, Susie King, 1848-1912--Juvenile literature.
- Taylor, Susie King.
- Taylor, Susie King, 1848-1912.
- American Civil War (1861-1865).
- African American nurses--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African American nurses.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care--Juvenile literature.
- United States.
- African American teachers--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African American teachers.
- Medical care.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Biography.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- v, [1], 42 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- [1st ed.]
- Other Title:
- Destined to be free
- Place of Publication:
- Orange, New Jersey : Just Us Books, Inc., [©1994].
- Summary:
- This is the story of Susie King Taylor, a runaway slave who founded a school and taught both children and adults how to read and write. She was the first black Civil War nurse to write her own story.
- Contents:
- A prayer for freedom
- The secret school
- Escape to the islands
- Susie the teacher
- Susie the nurse
- Mustered out
- Pressing on.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 40-41).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0940975505 (pbk.) :
- 9780940975507
- 0940975491 (hbk.)
- 9780940975491
- OCLC:
- 32028897
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