Elijah of Buxton
novel by Curtis
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- In Christopher Paul Curtis
Curtis’s next book, Elijah of Buxton (2007), is set in the 1850s and follows the first child born into freedom in a Canadian community of formerly enslaved people; he faces danger and learns the realities of slavery when he ventures into the United States. The work earned Curtis…
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