Shadows in the fire
By: Gray Basnight
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9781432829896; 9781432829827
Subjects: Slavery; Fiction; Coming of age; Historical; African American girls; Mothers and daughters; American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658; FICTION; History
Description: Wise beyond her years, Miss Francine is a twelve-year-old slave girl in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War. She endures the hardships of bondage as well as the oddity of being privately treated as a daughter by her mentally ill white mistress. She dreams of finding her real mother and eventually marrying her fianc ̌after the war.