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.
Genres
- award:national_book_award=2013
- award:national_book_award=fiction
- Fiction
- Fugitive slaves
- Abolitionists
- History
- Fiction, historical
- Slaves, fiction
- West virginia, fiction
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)
- American literature
- Fiction, historical, general
- Identity
- Runaways
- Roman
- Amerikanisches Englisch
- Historical fiction
- Large type books
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