Copper Sun
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2006]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 302 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
Subjects:
Slavery -- Fiction.
Indentured servants -- Fiction.
African Americans -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction.
South Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction.
Florida -- History -- Spanish colony, 1565-1763 -- Fiction.
Slavery -- Fiction.
Indentured servants -- Fiction.
African Americans -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction.
South Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction.
Florida -- History -- Spanish colony, 1565-1763 -- Fiction.
Target Audience: 820L
ISBN:
0689821816
More Formats
Includes bibliographical references (page [306]).
Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner, 2007.
Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner, 2007.