Promises to the Dead
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ISBN: 0064409821 / Publisher: HarperCollins, August 2002
A white boy helps a young black runaway slave to freedom in Baltimore City, in the most dangerous days of the Civil War.
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When Jesse Sherman promises to take a dying slave girl's small son safely to Baltimore, he embarks on a perilous journey that takes him to the darkest depths of humanity where only love, courage, and compassion will see him through, in an exciting novel set against the backdrop of the Civil War. Reprint.
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