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Libertie

by Kaitlyn Greenidge

2021 · adult

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Set in 2 places · 1 primary
Sense of Place
5/5

Set in

  • ★
    Brooklyn · United States
    Weeksville free Black community in 19th-century Brooklyn
    ★ primary
  • Jacmel · Haiti
    Haiti — first free Black Republic where Libertie follows her husband

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