I've got a home in glory land : a lost tale of the underground railroad /

I've got a home in glory land : a lost tale of the underground railroad / Karolyn Smardz Frost.

As his bride, Lucie, was about to be "sold down the river" to the slave markets of New Orleans in 1831, young Thornton Blackburn planned a daring escape from Louisville. Discovered by slave catchers in Michigan, they were slated to return to Kentucky in chains, until the black community ra...

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Main Author: Smardz Frost, Karolyn.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Blackburn, Thornton, > 1813 or 1814-1890.
Blackburn, Lucie, > -1895.
Fugitive slaves > Ontario > Toronto > Biography.
African Americans > Ontario > Toronto > Biography.
Enslaved persons > Kentucky > Biography.
African Americans > Kentucky > Biography.
Underground Railroad.
Antislavery movements > North America.
Toronto (Ont.) > Biography.

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Call Number: F1059.5.T6853 B55 2007
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