The All-true Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton: A Novel

The All-true Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton: A Novel
ISBN-10
0449910830
ISBN-13
9780449910832
Category
Fiction
Pages
452
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Author
Jane Smiley

Description

Offers the pre-Civil War memoirs of an abolitionist who in 1855 enters the fray between Kansas free-staters and slave-holding Missourians

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