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Promises to the dead

  • Mary Downing Hahn

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Twelve-year-old Jesse leaves his home on Maryland's Eastern Shore to help a young runaway slave find a safe haven in the early days of the Civil War.

Genres

  • Orphans
  • Maryland Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Slavery
  • Fiction
  • United States
  • Fugitive slaves
  • United States Civil War, 1861-1865
  • African Americans
  • History
  • Children's fiction
  • Slavery, fiction
  • African americans, fiction
  • Orphans, fiction
  • Maryland, fiction
  • United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction
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About the author

  • Mary Downing Hahn

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    96 ratings · 168 works

Editions

  • Edition cover

    Clarion Books

    2000

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    1st Harper Trophy ed.

    HarperTrophy

    2002

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    Thomas Allen

    2009