The babes in the basket, or, Daph and her charge / by the author of "Timid Lucy," "Heart and hand," etc.

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Daph risks her life to save the children of her master and mistress from death at the hands of fellow slaves on a Caribbean island and flees with them to New York.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
Main Author: Baker, Sarah S. (Sarah Schoonmaker), 1824-1906 (Author)
Other Authors: Orr, Nathaniel (Engraver)
Language:English
Published: New York : Anson D.F. Randolph, 1859.
Series:Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
Subjects:
African Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Loyalty > Juvenile fiction.
Christian life > Juvenile fiction.
Slave rebellions > Caribbean Area > Juvenile fiction.
Genre:
Juvenile fiction.
Online Access:
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations.
Variant Title:
Daph and her charge.
Format: Electronic eBook
Description
Summary:
Daph risks her life to save the children of her master and mistress from death at the hands of fellow slaves on a Caribbean island and flees with them to New York.
Note:Illustrations engraved and signed by N. Orr.
Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.