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Freeman Walker

Freeman Walker is a story told by a mulatto slave, Jimmy Gates, freed by his ownerfather when he is 7yearsold, separated from his mother and everything he holds dear. After receiving an unforgettable talk by his father about the rules of life he will no doubt discover on his journeys, and a copy of the Declaration of Independence, he is sent to England to get an education. Jimmy, in the first of the novel's great ironies, has had a blissful, loving childhood and never understood he wasn't free until his new "freedom" enslaves him miserably. Despite his loneliness for home, he learns fast and w.

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  • "Freeman Walker is a story told by a mulatto slave, Jimmy Gates, freed by his ownerfather when he is 7yearsold, separated from his mother and everything he holds dear. After receiving an unforgettable talk by his father about the rules of life he will no doubt discover on his journeys, and a copy of the Declaration of Independence, he is sent to England to get an education. Jimmy, in the first of the novel's great ironies, has had a blissful, loving childhood and never understood he wasn't free until his new "freedom" enslaves him miserably. Despite his loneliness for home, he learns fast and w."@en
  • "At the age of seven a mulatto slave boy, Jimmy Gates, is freed by his owner-father, separated from his mother, and sent to England for an education--which is just the beginning of his quest to understand the true meaning of moral freedom."

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
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  • "Freeman Walker"

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