228 pages
English language
Published Jan. 7, 2004 by Pocket 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
- Infants switched at birth -- Fiction
- Passing (Identity) -- Fiction
- Trials (Murder) -- Fiction
- Race relations -- Fiction
- Missouri -- Fiction