Title: The Good Lord Bird
Description: Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-nineteenth-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.
Subjects: award:national_book_award=2013, award:national_book_award=fiction, Fiction, Fugitive slaves, Abolitionists, History, Fiction, historical, Slaves, fiction, West virginia, fiction, Harpers Ferry (W. Va.), American literature, Fiction, historical, general, Identity, Runaways, Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch, Historical fiction, Large type books
Places: United States, Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)
People: John Brown (1800-1859)
Time periods: John Brown's Raid, 1859