A MILLION NIGHTINGALES. by Straight, Susan.

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A MILLION NIGHTINGALES.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Pantheon, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in early-nineteenth-century Louisiana, this is the story of a slave girls journey, both emotional and physical, from captivity to freedom. The daughter of an African mother and a white father she never knew, as a child she tended the master's daughter and listened in on her lessons. When she was sold at age 14, she begins to prepare herself for escape. SIGNED on the title page. Glossary. 333 pp.

Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (spine slant).

Book ID: 72839
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