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050 00 $aPS3553.A78944$bP75 1995
082 00 $a813/.54$220
100 1 $aCary, Lorene.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90638327
245 14 $aThe price of a child :$ba novel /$cLorene Cary.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bA.A. Knopf,$c1995.
263 $a9406
300 $a317 pages, 1 unnumbered page ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aThe Price of a Child opens in the fall of 1855. A Virginia planter is on his way to assume a diplomatic post in Nicaragua, accompanied by his cook, Ginnie, and two of her children (one of whom is his). Temporarily stranded in Philadelphia when they miss their steamboat, Ginnie makes a thrilling leap of the imagination: it is the moment she has been desperately waiting for, the moment she decides to be free.
520 8 $aIn broad daylight, under the furious gaze of her master, she walks straight out of slavery into a new life - and into a whole new set of compromising positions.
520 8 $aWe follow Ginnie as she settles with a respectable and rambunctious black family, as she reinvents herself, christens herself Mercer Gray, dodges slave catchers, lectures far and wide in the cause of abolition, and falls in love with a man whose own ties are a formidable barrier to their happiness. And we see her agonizing all the while about the baby boy she had to leave behind on the plantation, whom she is determined to rescue.
650 0 $aAfrican American women$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$vFiction.
650 0 $aWomen abolitionists$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$vFiction.
650 0 $aFreed persons$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$vFiction.
651 0 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108939
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aLove stories.$2gsafd
852 00 $bglx$hPS3553.A78944$iP75 1995