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The price of a child : a novel Lorene Cary
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks PS3553.A78944 P75 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cary, Lorene.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Fiction.
- African American women.
- Freed persons--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Fiction.
- Freed persons.
- Women abolitionists--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Fiction.
- Women abolitionists.
- Underground Railroad--Pennsylvania--Fiction.
- Underground Railroad.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Fiction.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Physical Description:
- 317 p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st Vintage Books ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, [1996, c1995.
- Summary:
- When Ginnie, the cook of a Virginia planter, sees her chance in 1855 in Philadelphia, she walks straight out of that life of slavery and reinvents herself as a free woman even though she has to leave behind the baby that she and the planter created.
- ISBN:
- 0679744673 (pbk.) :
- 9780679744672 (pbk.)
- OCLC:
- 34993506
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