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Bound for the North Star : true stories of fugitive slaves Dennis Brindell Fradin
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 450 .F77 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fradin, Dennis B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fugitive slaves--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Fugitive slaves.
- Underground Railroad--Juvenile literature.
- Underground Railroad.
- Abolitionists--United States--Juvenile literature.
- Abolitionists.
- Antislavery movements--United States--Juvenile literature.
- Antislavery movements.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 206 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Clarion Books, c2000.
- Summary:
- Twelve accounts of slaves who escaped the South hoping for freedom and a new life.
- Contents:
- Mary Prince
- Fed
- Eliza Harris and Margaret Garner
- Peter and Vina Still
- Henry "Box" Brown and Lear Green
- Ellen and William Craft
- William Wells Brown
- The Oberlin-Wellington rescue of John Price
- John Anderson
- Ann Maria Weems
- Solomon Northup
- Harriet Tubman.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-200) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.
- ISBN:
- 0395970172
- 9780395970171
- OCLC:
- 43657066
- Online:
- Publisher's description
- Contributor biographical information
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