Flee north : a forgotten hero and the fight for freedom in slavery's borderland /

"A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and popularized the term "underground railroad," from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Scott Shane. Flee North tells the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shane, Scott, 1954- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Celadon Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • The most inhuman system that ever blackened the pages of history
  • Until no slave should be found in our land
  • That mock metropolis of freedom
  • The flesh-mongers
  • Slavery's borderland
  • Safe from the fangs of Robert Gilmor
  • The laughingstock letters
  • That vile wretch Slatter
  • Very vigilant officers!
  • Between two fires
  • A fugitive from justice
  • Perhaps reckless
  • Let the strife go on
  • Fly to Canada, and begin anew
  • Resident capitalist
  • No breeze comes.