The Glory Field
By: by Walter Dean Myers ; with connections.
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
Subjects: African Americans -- Juvenile fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Family -- Fiction; Discrimination -- Fiction; Slavery -- Fiction; South Carolina -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: Follows a family's two hundred forty-one year history, from the capture of an African boy in the 1750s through the lives of his descendants, as their dreams and circumstances lead them away from and back to the small plot of land in South Carolina that they call the Glory Field.
Notes: Novel, followed by narratives and excerpts from related stories and a biographical sketch of the author.