A Free Man of Color
- ISBN-10
- 0553575260
- ISBN-13
- 9780553575262
- Series
- A Free Man of Color
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 412
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Author
- Barbara Hambly
Description
In New Orleans in the 1830s, Benjamin January, a Creole musician and a free Black man, struggles to clear his name when he becomes a suspect in the murder of an octoroon woman
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