Title: Melitte
First published: 1997
Description: In 1772, years of mistreatment force thirteen-year-old Melitte to decide whether or not to run away from the Frenchman who has kept her as a slave on his poor Louisiana farm and leave the young girl who is the only person who ever loved her.
Subjects: Fiction, Sisters, African Americans, Slavery, History, Children's fiction, Louisiana, fiction, Sisters, fiction, Slavery, fiction, African americans, fiction
Places: Louisiana
Time periods: To 1803
LC classification: PZ7.S52785 Me 1997