Copper sun
About this book
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
Subjects
- 1000blackgirlbooks
- african americans
- african americans, fiction
- african americans, history, fiction
- african-american teenage girls
- africans in the united states
- children's fiction
- contract labor
- cruelty
- determination in teenage girls
- escapes
- exploitation
- fiction
- fifteen-year-old girls
- florida, fiction
- friendship
- friendship, fiction
- fugitive slaves
- history
- indentured servants
- interracial friendship
- juvenile fiction
- race relations, fiction
- racism
- rape
- sexual slavery
- slavery
- slavery, fiction
- south carolina, fiction
- survival
- teenage slaves
- united states, history, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, fiction