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Stolen : five free boys kidnapped into slavery and their astonishing odyssey home / Richard Bell.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 444 .B38 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bell, Richard, 1978- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enslaved children--United States--Biography.
- Enslaved children.
- Kidnapping victims--United States--Biography.
- Kidnapping victims.
- Fugitive slaves--United States--Biography.
- Fugitive slaves.
- African Americans--Biography.
- African Americans.
- Free African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--History--19th century.
- Free African Americans.
- Slavery--United States--History--19th century.
- Slavery.
- United States--Race relations--History--19th century.
- United States.
- Race relations.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- History.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First 37 INK/Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : 37 INK, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2019.
- Summary:
- Philadelphia, 1825. Five young, free black boys are lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay. They are instead met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their kidnappers drive them overland into the Cotton Kingdom to be sold as slaves. Determined to resist, the boys form a tight brotherhood as they struggle to free themselves and find their way home. Their ordeal shines a spotlight on the Reverse Underground Railroad, a black market network of human traffickers and slave traders who stole away thousands of legally free African Americans from their families in order to fuel slavery's rapid expansion in the decades before the Civil War. -- adapted from jacket
- Contents:
- Introduction: The reverse Underground Railroad
- Sanctuary city
- Black hearts
- Midnight land
- In-laws and outlaws
- The beaten way
- The body in the wagon
- The halfway house
- The lifeboat
- A living witness
- Hunting wolves
- Kidnappers all
- Conclusion: The first law of nature.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-293) and index.
- Local Notes:
- HSP Credit Line: "A list of documents and depositions sent to Rocky Springs, Mississippi" March 13, 1826. Joseph Watson Papers, Page 139.
- HSP Credit Line: Arch Street Prison watercolor. David Kennedy watercolor K:II-12
- ISBN:
- 9781501169434
- 1501169432
- OCLC:
- 1110127438
- Publisher Number:
- 40029519689
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