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Created to Be Free

Created to Be Free

Juanita Patience Moss

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Heritage Books
Año de edición:
2013
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Ficción histórica
ISBN:
9781585497041
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This is the life story of a tenacious young black runaway from North Carolina who during the Civil War enlisted in an all white volunteer regiment from western Pennsylvania in 1861 and garrisoned in Plymouth, North Carolina in 1863.

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