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1 online resource (275 pages) |
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"Russell's Knob is not paradise. But already in 1849 this New Jersey highlands settlement is home to a diverse population of blacks, whites, and reds who have intermarried and lived in relative harmony for generations. It is a haven for Dossie Bird, who has escaped north along the Underground Railroad and now feels the embrace of the Smoot family. Duncan Smoot presides as accidental patriarch, protector of his enterprising sister, Hattie, and his two rambunctious nephews. As Dossie busies herself with cleaning, cooking, and tending the chickens at Duncan's homestead, she wonders: Could this man, her rescuer--so godlike in her eyes, so much older than she--expect her to become his helpmeet? Tentatively, Dossie begins to put down roots--until a shocking act of violence propels her away from Russell's Knob and eventually into the mayhem of New York City's mean streets."-- Publisher's website. |
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After the Underground Railroad brings Dossie Bird to Russell's Knob, New Jersey, she enjoys a new life in a racially diverse and harmonious highlands settlement with the Smoot family, until an act of violence leads her to the mayhem of New York City. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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African American women -- Fiction.
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Fugitive slaves -- Fiction.
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Underground Railroad -- Fiction.
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Racially mixed people -- Fiction.
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Interracial marriage -- Fiction.
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African American women. |
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Fugitive slaves. |
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Interracial marriage. |
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Racially mixed people. |
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New Jersey -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Clarke, Breena. Angels make their hope here New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014 9780316254007 (NjBwBT)bl2014009714 (OCoLC)856053492 |
| ISBN |
9780316322546 : $78.00 |
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0316322547 : $78.00 |
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