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The Good Lord Bird  Cover Image Book Book

The Good Lord Bird

Summary: 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.

Item details

  • ISBN: 9781594486340
  • ISBN: 1594486344
  • ISBN: 9781594632785
  • ISBN: 1594632782
  • Physical Description: print
    417 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Riverhead Books, 2013.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note: Free Deeds (Kansas). Meet the lord ; The good lord bird ; The old man's army ; Massacre ; Nigger Bob ; Prisoner again ; Black Jack ; A bad omen ; A sign from God. -- Slave Deeds (Missouri). A real gunslinger ; Pie ; Sibonia ; Insurrection ; A terrible discovery ; Squeezed ; Busting out. -- Legend (Virginia). Rolling into history ; Meeting a great man ; Smelling like bear ; Rousing the hive ; The plan ; The spy ; The word ; The rail man ; Annie ; The things heaven sent ; Escape ; Attack ; A bowl of confusion ; Un-hiving the bees ; Last stand ; Getting gone.
Awards Note:
National Book Award for Fiction, 2013
Subject: Brown, John 1800-1859 Fiction
Fugitive slaves United States Fiction
Abolitionists Fiction
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) History John Brown's Raid, 1859 Fiction
Identity Fiction
Runaways Fiction
Brown, John
Fugitive slaves United States Fiction
Abolitionists Fiction
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) John Brown's Raid, 1859 History
Brown, John 1800-1859
Abolitionists
Fugitive slaves
United States
Roman
Amerikanisches Englisch
Brown, John 1800-1859 Fiction
Fugitive slaves United States Fiction
Abolitionists Fiction
Historical fiction
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) History Fiction
Book group discussion kits.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
History.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.

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