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47 - Ossie Davis, Walter Mosley
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Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom.
Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN: 9780307206626 (0307206629)
Publisher: Listening Library
Edition language: English
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Apparently this is considered youth fiction because the protagonist is a youth. The story is a sort of fairly tale that deals with the lives of slaves in the south about thirty years before the Civil War. #47 is a young slave. Slaves, not being real people, didn't need real names. #47 eventually run...
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