OL22860980M
Copper sun
Sharon M. Draper
- Publisher
- Simon Pulse
- Published
- 2008
- ISBN-13
- 9781416953487
- ISBN-10
- 1416953485
- Work ID
- OL12484W
Description
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
Subjects
Juvenile fictionSlaveryFictionIndentured servantsAfrican AmericansHistoryContract laborRapeInterracial friendshipRacismExploitationAfrican-American teenage girlsFriendshipFifteen-year-old girlsAfricans in the United StatesEscapesSurvivalDetermination in teenage girlsCrueltyFugitive slavesTeenage slavesSexual slavery1000blackgirlbooksChildren's fiction