OLDER FICTION
Schwartz, Virginia Frances

Send One Angel Down

(2) YA Julius Lester's To Be a Slave includes an account of the auction-block rescue of Eliza, sold by a master who had fathered her: a northern abolitionist bought and freed her. Schwartz extends the brief eyewitness account into a compelling first novel, writing passionately of the privations and cruelties of the old South, and of the love and loyalty of the slaves for one another.

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