Addy Walker is an African-American girl who, at the start of her stories, is enslaved with her family on a North Carolina plantation during the last years of the American Civil War. In Fall 1864 she escapes with her mother Ruth to the free North; the two arrive and settle in Philadelphia. More @Wikipedia
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