Sapphire's grave / Hilda Gurley-Highgate.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gurley-Highgate, Hilda.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American families--Fiction.

African American families.

Sierra Leone.

Women--North Carolina--Fiction.

Women.

North Carolina.

North Carolina--Fiction.

Enslaved women--Fiction.

Enslaved women.

Sierra Leone--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 248 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Doubleday, 2003.

Summary:

Sapphire, born to a woman sold as a slave in eighteenth-century America, uses her indominable strength and defiant spirit to overcome the poverty and oppression of her life and passes on these qualities to her own descendants.

Notes:

"Book design by Nicola Ferguson."

"January 2003."

"Jacket design by Jean Traina. Jacket photo illustration by Debra Lill."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0385503237 :

9780385503235

OCLC:

50149701

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