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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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Celadon Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers,
2023.
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| 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.