Title: Band of Angels
First published: June 7, 1977
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.
Subjects: Kentucky, fiction, New orleans (la.), fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, war & military, Slaves, fiction, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction, Racially mixed people, Women slaves, Plantation life, New Orleans (La.) Civil War, 1861-1865, Fiction, History, Fiction, historical
Places: Kentucky, New Orleans (La.)
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865