Thee, Hannah!

By Marguerite de Angeli

Subjects: Society of Friends, Juvenile literature, Slavery, fiction, Society of friends, fiction, Slavery, Clothing and dress, Philadelphia (pa.), fiction, Fiction, Clothing and dress, fiction, Children's fiction, Quakers, Christianity, Juvenile fiction, Healing, Suffering

Description: Nine-year-old Hannah, a Quaker living in Philadelphia just before the Civil War, longs to have some fashionable dresses like other girls but comes to appreciate her heritage and its plain dressing when her family saves the life of a runaway slave.