Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland - Scott Shane (Celadon Books) 【紙書籍】 9781250843234

タイトル: Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland著者: Scott Shane出版社: Celadon Books出版日: 2024年12月03日新しい本新古品・未使用品。
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A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the YearA riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and named the underground railroad, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Scott Shane. Flee North tells the story for the first time of an American hero all but lost to history. Born into slavery, by the 1840s Thomas Smallwood was free, self-educated, and working as a shoemaker a short walk from the U.S. Capitol. He recruited a young white activist, Charles Torrey, and together they began to organize mass escapes from Washington, Baltimore, and surrounding counties to freedom in the north. They were racing against an implacable enemy: men like Hope Slatter, the region's leading slave trader, part of a lucrative industry that would．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る