Good story about the horrors of slavery
I would rate this higher as a young adult book, about middle school level..  Good story about the horrors of slavery, but basic and simplistic in style.  I think this would best be read in a 7th grade social studies class as a companion piece to the study of America's most shameful and abysmal period in  history, and how, though the legal institution of slavery is over, the political sabotage and the social mores of discrimination against human beings continue to infest our American society.
Very interesting reading and makes you start feeling bad for the bad guy after a while.  Life in these times must have been very hard on everyone.  Dale B  Las Vegas