47
By: by Walter Mosley.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Slavery -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Plantation life -- Fiction; Freedom -- Fiction; Magic -- Fiction; Georgia -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Forty-seven
Description: Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom.