The Good Lord Bird

Name: The Good Lord Bird
Author: James McBride
ISBN: 9781611762938

by James McBride

2013 · historical fiction · adult

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Set in 2 places · 1 primary

Sense of Place

5/5

Description · Open Library (CC0)

Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-nineteenth-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.

Set in

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Harpers Ferry · United States
Site of John Brown's 1859 raid, climax of the novel
★ primary
Kansas Territory · United States
1856 "Bleeding Kansas" where Henry joins John Brown