Title: Promises to the dead
Description: Twelve-year-old Jesse leaves his home on Maryland's Eastern Shore to help a young runaway slave find a safe haven in the early days of the Civil War.
Subjects: Orphans, Maryland Civil War, 1861-1865, Slavery, Fiction, United States, Fugitive slaves, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, African Americans, History, Children's fiction, Slavery, fiction, African americans, fiction, Orphans, fiction, Maryland, fiction, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction
Places: Maryland, United States
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865