num_pages: 208
description: A white boy helps a young black runaway slave to freedom in Baltimore City, in the most dangerous days of the Civil War.
language: English
title: Promises to the Dead
titlecomplete: Promises to the Dead
genres: Historical, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Childrens, Ghosts, War, Historical Fiction, Horror, Fiction, Civil War
ratings_count: 885
publisher: HarperCollins