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A young slave boy is named and numbered 47 on a nineteenth-century Georgia plantation and encounters the brutality and injustice of the system of slavery. 47 meets a strange being named Tall John who appears to be another slave boy - a runaway. But as 47 comes to realise, John is an... read more
First Sentence
I lived as a slave on the Corinthian Plantation my whole life up to the time that Tall John ran out of the back woods and into my life.
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Authors & Contributors
- Walter Mosley (Author)
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