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The Good Lord Bird

by James McBride

award:national_book_award=2013award:national_book_award=fictionFictionFugitive slavesAbolitionistsHistoryFiction, historicalSlaves, fiction

Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-nineteenth-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.

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Book data: Open Library