The Good Lord Bird

James McBride First published 2013

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • abolitionists
  • american literature
  • amerikanisches englisch
  • award:national_book_award=2013
  • award:national_book_award=fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction, historical
  • fiction, historical, general
  • fugitive slaves
  • harpers ferry (w. va.)
  • historical fiction
  • history
  • identity
  • large type books
  • roman
  • runaways
  • slaves, fiction
  • west virginia, fiction