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Passing by Samaria / Sharon Ewell Foster.

Foster, Sharon Ewell. (Author).

Summary:

When the discovery of a schoolmate{s lynched body puts her own life in jeopardy, Alena is sent by her parents from her beloved Mississippi home. With thousands of other African-Americans, Alena begins making her way north to the Promised Land of turn-of-the-century Chicago. On the way she meets two men who will dramatically impact her life: James, a young African-American believer determined to establish a newspaper in Chicago, and Pearl, a man with questionable intentions.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1576736156
  • ISBN: 9781576736159
  • Physical Description: 382 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: Sisters, Or. : Alabaster Books, [2000]

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African American women > Fiction.
African American women > Illinois > Chicago > Fiction.
African American women > Mississippi > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.) > Fiction.
Mississippi > Fiction.
Genre:
Christian fiction.
Historical fiction.

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  • 19 of 19 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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