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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

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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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  1. Walter Mosley (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
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Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 0316110353
Page Count: 240

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