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Cover of The Gospel Truth

The Gospel Truth

✍ Scribed by Pignat, Caroline


Book ID
108596410
Publisher
Red Deer Press
Year
2014
Tongue
en-CA
Weight
315 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780889954939

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


Award-winning author Caroline Pignat's new historical novel recreates the world of a Virginia tobacco plantation in 1858. Through the different points of view of slaves, their masters and a visiting bird-watcher the world of the plantation comes to live in this verse novel.

Phoebe belongs to Master Duncan and works in the plantation kitchen.

She sees how the other slaves are treated -- the beatings and whippings, the disappearances. She hasn't seen her mother since Master Duncan sold her ten years ago. But Phoebe is trying to learn words and how to read and when she is asked to show the master's Canadian visitor, Doctor Bergman, where he can find warblers and chickadees she starts to see things differently. And Doctor Bergman has more in mind that just drawing the local birds. Phoebe's friend Shad works on the plantation as well -- but mostly he worries about his brother Will. His brother is the last member of his family and he is determined to escape from the...


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