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Iola Leroy, or, Shadows uplifted

By Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911.
Robbins, Hollis, 1963-
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

Audience Adults

Published 2010. by Penguin Books, New York

ISBN 9780143106043

Bib Id 809244

Description xxxvii, 214 p. ; 20 cm.

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cam a22 a 4500
LCCN
2009-035095
ISBN
9780143106043 (pbk.) : $15.00
014310604X
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FIC Harper
Author
Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911.
Title
Iola Leroy, or, Shadows uplifted
Varying Form of Title
Iola Leroy
Shadows uplifted
Description
xxxvii, 214 p. ; 20 cm.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary
Iola Leroy, a racially mixed girl who becomes a slave when her white father dies, finds that through her maternal ancestors she is heir to a black family, and searches for her true community and her real family.
Subject
Racially mixed people--Fiction.
Slaves--Fiction.
Free African Americans--Fiction.
African Americans--Social conditions--19th century--Fiction.
United States--History African Americans--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.
Added Author
Robbins, Hollis, 1963-
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Series
Penguin classics.

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