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In the post-Civil War South, a seventeen-year-old African American boy, accused of a crime, is living in a labor camp where brutality, near starvation, humiliation, and rape are commonplace.
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3 editions- Other · English · 2013Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers · 288 pages · 9780547910697
- Other · English · 2013Clarion Books · 328 pages · 9780547910680
- Other · English · 2013HarperCollins Publishers · 9781306169349
Race relationsChain gangsPrisonersAfrican AmericansJuvenile fictionFictionChildren's fictionAfrican americans, fiction