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The Price of a Child
Freed persons
Freedmen
Philadelphia (pa.), fiction
Pennsylvania, fiction
Women abolitionists
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African American women
Love stories
Fiction, historical
Historical fiction
Fiction, historical, general
Fiction
The Price of a Child opens in the fall of 1855. A Virginia planter is on his way to assume a diplomatic post in Nicaragua, accompanied by his cook, Ginnie, and two of her children (one of whom is his). Temporarily stranded in Philadelphia when they miss their steamboat, Ginnie makes a thrilling leap…
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