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Title Martha and the slave catchers / Harriet Hyman Alonso ; illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon.
Author Alonso, Harriet Hyman, author.
Publication New York : Seven Stories Press/Triangle Square, [2017]
Description vii, 246 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Call # J FIC ALONSO
Summary When the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law passes, thirteen-year-old Martha, the daughter of abolitionists living in Connecticut, embarks on a journey of self-discovery as she travels south to save her kidnapped adopted brother Jake, the orphan of a runaway slave.
Note Maps on endpapers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Slavery -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Racially mixed people -- Fiction.
Abolitionists -- Fiction.
Fugitive slaves -- Fiction.
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction.
United States -- History -- 1815-1861 -- Fiction.
Genre Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Historical fiction.
Addl. Author Zunon, Elizabeth, illustrator.
ISBN 9781609808006 (hardcover) :
1609808002 (hardcover) :

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