Band of angels
By: Robert Penn Warren.
Contributors: Gable, Clark, 1901-1960, inscriber.; Pforzheimer, Carl Howard, 1879-1957, former owner.; Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1955
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
Subjects: Racially mixed people -- Fiction; Plantation life -- Fiction; Women slaves -- Fiction; New Orleans (La.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction; Kentucky -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Amantha Starr, who was sent to Ohio at age nine to receive an education, does not return to her father's Kentucky plantation until she learns of his death. At his graveside she is shocked to learn that her mother had been a plantation slave, and now she, Amantha, is being sold by her father's creditors. This is her story for a search of freedom.
Notes: "First printing"--Verso of t.p.