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The babes in the basket, or, Daph and her charge / by the author of "Timid Lucy," "Heart and hand," et cetera.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baker, Sarah S. (Sarah Schoonmaker), 1824-1906, author.
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans.
- Loyalty--Juvenile fiction.
- Loyalty.
- Christian life--Juvenile fiction.
- Christian life.
- Slave rebellions--Caribbean Area--Juvenile fiction.
- Slave rebellions.
- Caribbean Area.
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Daph and her charge
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Anson D.F. Randolph, 1859.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Daph risks her life to save the children of her master and mistress from death at the hands of fellow slaves on a Caribbean island and flees with them to New York.
- Notes:
- Illustrations engraved and signed by N. Orr.
- Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- OCLC:
- 892868687
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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