Born at the Battlefield of Gettysburg: An African American Family Saga

ISBN-13: 9781558763326 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 200 str.

Harriette C. Rinaldi

Opis

A story in which the protagonist's mother, a daughter of free blacks in Philadelphia, was kidnapped from her parents by slave catchers. After the kidnapping, she was enslaved on a Virginia tobacco plantation for 37 years before making her escape to Gettysburg. She was nine months pregnant - and determined that her child would not be born a slave.