Human rights, morality, justice, abolition, and resistance were common themes in nineteenth-century debates about slavery. Arguments pro and con are presented here.
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Grade 5-9-Of the four million slaves in antebellum America, approximately 60,000 escaped to freedom. This book recounts the story of six of those individuals, all of whom possessed determination, courage, creativity, and hope. Ellen and William Craft ran away from Georgia, traveling by boat and train in plain sight using an elaborate deception. After several harrowing events, they successfully reached Philadelphia on Christmas Day, 1848. Josiah Henson, his wife, and their four children crossed the Ohio River to Cincinnati, eventually reaching Canada with the help of several abolitionists. Harriet Tubman is remembered for the dozens of other slaves she helped to freedom, making several journeys back to the South after her successful escape in 1849. With the help of Quakers, William Wells Brown escaped from Missouri and settled in Ohio, working as a steward aboard a Lake Erie steamboat. A Virginia slave Henry Brown made it to freedom by mailing himself in a large wooden crate to Philadelphia. These exciting tales are written in lively language and are accompanied by black-and-white illustrations and informative sidebars. Facts about the Underground Railroad and its assistance to runaway slaves are appended.-Patricia Ann Owens, Wabash Valley College, Mt. Carmel, IL
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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