Title: Secret of the old red barn
Description: In 1860 Michigan, as twelve-year-old Zach and his father become involved in a new, unnamed church and befriend neighbors who are freed slaves, they have conflicts with townspeople and with Zach's mother, a Baptist from Georgia.
Subjects: Freedmen, Underground Railroad, Seventh-Day Adventists, Juvenile fiction, Family life, Fiction, Race relations, Farm life, African Americans, History, Children's fiction, Farm life, fiction, Michigan, fiction, Family life, fiction, Race relations, fiction, African americans, fiction, Underground railroad, fiction
Places: Michigan
Time periods: 19th century