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Jack Be Nimble
This is the story of how the Civil War soldier was recruited
letters and numbers written in the margins by a child
Original red cloth covers w/ titles in gilt
Light foxing throughout
Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American - An Autobiography - Jean-Robert Cadet - 2000 The University of Texas Press Paperback Henry Kuttner Jack Be NimbleCondition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Blurb: African slaves in Haiti emancipated themselves from French rule in 1804 and created the first independent black republic in the Western Hemisphere. But they reinstituted slavery for the most vulnerable members of Haitian societythe children of the poorby using them as unpaid servants to the wealthy. These children wereand still arerestavecs, a French term whose literal meaning of
