Nobody’s Boy
文学理论A work of historical fiction, "Nobody’s Boy "is loosely based on the real-life story of a slave named George Kirkland. George’s owner, Hugh Garland, the lawyer for Mrs. Emerson in the "Dred Scott" case, brought him to St. Louis at the age of about five. George’s mother, Elizabeth Keckly (dressmaker for and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln), bought his freedom and, in about 1860, sent him to college in Ohio. Like the main character in "Nobody’s Boy, " the light-skinned George ultimately joined a Missouri regiment in the Civil Wa