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Who is Carrie? / Collier, James Lincoln and Christopher Collier
Summary
Part of a family trilogy, this book focuses on Carrie, who is a teenage orphan kitchen slave owned by Mr. Fraunces who runs a tavern. When Mr. Fraunces is appointed head steward to George Washington's home in New York, Carrie goes with him as a kitchen servant. While helping her best friend Dan Arbus, who wants to buy his mother's freedom, she discovers she and Dan are cousins, and that she may have been owned by a Captain Ivers. Captain Ivers tries to kidnap Carrie, but she escapes. At the end of the novel Carrie is free, no longer a slave, but she is unable to find the papers that would prove this, and is still at risk of being kidnapped and sold into bondage. The novel follows Carrie's journey from being an orphan to knowing where she comes from and who here family is.
Keywords
18th century, African Americans, Fiction, Identity, New York City, Slavery, United States
Reading Levels
Ages 12 - 14 / Grades 6 - 8
Publication History
- New York : Delacorte, 1984. 158. ISBN 0385292953