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The Devil's Half Acre

✍ Scribed by Kristen Green

Book ID: 115198167
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Weight: 9 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781541675636

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✦ Synopsis

**The inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the nation's first HBCUs **

In The Devil 's Half Acre, _New York Times _bestselling author Kristen Green draws on years of research to tell the extraordinary and little-known story of young Mary Lumpkin, an enslaved woman who blazed a path of liberation for thousands. She was forced to have the children of a brutal slave trader and live on the premises of his slave jail, known as the "Devil's Half Acre." When she inherited the jail after the death of her slaveholder, she transformed it into "God's Half Acre,"...

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