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The Good Lord Bird
by James McBrideNot on Booklabria yet
Synopsis
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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John Brown's Raid, 1859
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