47 / by Walter Mosley

Author: Mosley, Walter
Additional Titles: Forty-seven
Published: New York : Little, Brown, 2005.
Edition: 1st ed.
Physical Description: 232 pages ; 20 cm

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Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom.

Subject(s)

Slavery—Fiction
African Americans—Fiction
Plantation life—Fiction
Freedom—Fiction
Magic—Fiction
Slavery—Juvenile fiction
African Americans—Juvenile fiction
Plantation life—Juvenile fiction
Liberty—Juvenile fiction
Magic—Juvenile fiction
Georgia—History—1775-1865—Fiction
Georgia—History—1775-1865—Juvenile fiction

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0316110353
9780316016353

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UP-PAT copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 20056.

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47 / by Walter Mosley

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