The Good Lord Bird

book · Riverhead · 2013

By James McBride

Sourced from New York Times · Indexed 2026

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Synopsis

Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-nineteenth-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.

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