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Passing for white / Tanya Landman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Barrington Stoke teenPublication details: Edinburgh : Barrington Stoke, 2017.Description: 103 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781781126813 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.92 23
Summary: It's 1848 in the Deep South of America. Rosa is a slave but her owner is also her father and her fair skin means she can 'pass for white'. With the help of her husband Benjamin, she disguises herself as a young southern gentleman - and Benjamin's master. In this guise, the couple flee the South, explaining away their lack of literacy, avoiding those they have encountered before and holding their nerve over a thousand miles to freedom.Inspired by the amazing true story of Ellen Craft who escaped a life of slavery through a daring disguise and won freedom for herself and her husband.
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Fiction The Harden Library, King's Hospital Fiction Section F LAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available AR BL 4.1 30499100000342

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It's 1848 in the Deep South of America. Rosa is a slave but her owner is also her father and her fair skin means she can 'pass for white'. With the help of her husband Benjamin, she disguises herself as a young southern gentleman - and Benjamin's master. In this guise, the couple flee the South, explaining away their lack of literacy, avoiding those they have encountered before and holding their nerve over a thousand miles to freedom.Inspired by the amazing true story of Ellen Craft who escaped a life of slavery through a daring disguise and won freedom for herself and her husband.

Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning UY 4.1 3 Quiz number: 231986

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