Draper, Sharon M.

Copper sun / Sharon M. Draper. - New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006. - 302 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [304]-[306]).

Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.

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Slavery--Fiction.
Indentured servants--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.


South Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Fiction.
Florida--History--Spanish colony, 1565-1763--Fiction.

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