The Price of a Child

✍ Scribed by Lorene Cary

• Book ID: 110901913
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 376 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307778482
• ASIN: B004G8PAJS

✦ Synopsis

**An intimate, gripping novel of the antebellum Underground Railroad, based on the true story of a valiant Philadelphia freedwoman --a debut novel from the author of the "stunning memoir" Black Ice(New York Times).
"A stunning achievement ... a deeply engrossing story." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
**
With _Price of a Child --_the story of Ginnie Pryor (cook, mistress and servant to a Virginia planter) and her struggle with slavery in 1855--Lorene Cary continues has created a work that elevates the reputation she created with Black Ice , her memoir which won her comparisons to Maya Angelou and Richard Wright. In a novel that examines the price of freedom and the value of a child's life, Cary has created an authentic American heroine--a woman who finds voice for the appalling loss and bitterness of her past, and who creates within herself a new humanity.