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Copper sun by Sharon M. Draper · Booklabria

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First published: 2006
Language: English
Editions: 2

Synopsis

Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.

Subjects: History
Children's fiction
Friendship
African Americans
Survival
Race relations
Set in: Florida
South Carolina
1565-1763 Spanish colony
Time: 18th Century; Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

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