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Secret daughter : a mixed-race daughter and the mother who gave her away June Cross
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 185.97 .C86 A3 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cross, June.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cross, June--Childhood and youth.
- Cross, June.
- Cross, June--Family.
- Cross family.
- Multiracial people--United States--Biography.
- Multiracial people.
- Abandoned children--United States--Biography.
- Abandoned children.
- Multiracial people--Race identity--United States.
- Mothers and daughters--United States--Case studies.
- Mothers and daughters.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 304 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2007.
- Summary:
- June Cross chronicles her childhood as a mixed-race child, recounting the experiences she and her mother had living in New York, her mother's decision to send June to live with an African-American family, and the impact that decision had on June's life.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Viking, 2006.
- Local Notes:
- The Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complementary Collection.
- ISBN:
- 0143112112
- 9780143112112
- OCLC:
- 123451571
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