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The price of a child : a novel

When Ginnie, the cook of a Virginia planter, sees her chance in 1855 in Philadelphia, she walks straight out of that life of slavery and reinvents herself as a free woman even though she has to leave behind the baby that she and the planter created.

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Main Author: Cary, Lorene.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Books, [1996, c1995.
Edition:1st Vintage Books ed.
Subjects and Genres:
African American women > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Fiction.
Freed persons > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Fiction.
Women abolitionists > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Fiction.
Underground Railroad > Pennsylvania > Fiction.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Fiction.
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Summary: When Ginnie, the cook of a Virginia planter, sees her chance in 1855 in Philadelphia, she walks straight out of that life of slavery and reinvents herself as a free woman even though she has to leave behind the baby that she and the planter created.
Physical Description: 317 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN: 0679744673 (pbk.) :
9780679744672 (pbk.)

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