The Good Lord Bird Summary
James McBride

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The Good Lord Bird Summary

The Good Lord Bird is a historical novel published by journalist, noted memoirist, and author James McBride in 2013. It is his third historical novel, and it was honored with the National Book Award. It is 417 pages long, and follows the experiences of a young African-American boy named Henry Shackleford as he travels with abolitionist John Brown from his enslavement in Kansas to the raid on Harpers Ferry. The novel is fiction...

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