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Home for Christmas

by Howard Bahr · 1987

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In December 1865, determined to keep the two white children in his care out of the local orphanage, Isaiah, a freed slave, takes them from Memphis to Cumberland, Mississippi to find a new home with their uncle, now crippled and impoverished.

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Audience
adult
Length
short · 49 pages

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