Promises to the dead
By: by Mary Downing Hahn.
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Slavery -- Fiction; Fugitive slaves -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; Maryland -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Twelve-year-old Jesse leaves his home on Maryland's Eastern Shore to help a young runaway slave find a safe haven in the early days of the Civil War.