143 pages
Published April 18, 1981 by Bantam Books.
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A young slave woman attempting to protect her son from the horrors of slavery, switches her light-skinned infant with the master's white son. This novel features a literary first — the use of fingerprinting to solve a crime.
Subjects
- Impostors and imposture -- Missouri -- Fiction.
- Trials (Murder) -- Missouri -- Fiction.
- Slavery -- United States -- Fiction.