Nobody's Boy: Volume 1

by Jennifer Fleischner

A work of historical fiction, Nobody's Boy is loosely based on the real-life story of a slave named George Kirkland. George's owner, Hugh Garland, the lawyer for Mrs. Emerson in the Dred Scott case, brought him to St. Louis at the age of about five. George's mother, Elizabeth Keckly (dressmaker for and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln), bought his freedom and, in about 1860, sent him to college in Ohio. Like the main character in Nobody's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883982588
• ISBN13: 9781883982584
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Missouri Historical Society Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"