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      The Price Of A Child

      by Lorene Cary
      Published
      Jun 1995
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      An intimate, gripping novel of the antebellum Underground Railroad, based on the true story of a valiant Philadelphia freedwoman—a debut novel from the author of the "stunning memoir" Black Ice (New York Times).

      "A stunning achievement ... a deeply engrossing story." —The Philadelphia Inquirer

      With Price of a Child—the story of Ginnie Pryor (cook, mistress and servant to a Virginia planter) and her struggle with slavery in 1855—Lorene Cary continues has created a work that elevates the reputation she created with Black Ice, her memoir which won her comparisons to Maya Angelou and Richard Wright. In a novel that examines the price of freedom and the value of a child's life, Cary has created an authentic American heroine—a woman who finds voice for the appalling loss and bitterness of her past, and who creates within herself a new humanity.

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      Historical

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      Jun 1996 Vintage ISBN 0679744673
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      Jun 1996 Turtleback Books ISBN 1417718838
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