num_pages: 480
description: " Winner of the Governor General s Award for Non-Fiction, 2007" It was the day before Independence Day, 1831. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be "sold down the river" to the slave markets of New Orleans, young Thornton Blackburn planned a daring and successful daylight escape from Louisville. But they were discovered by slave catchers in Michigan and slated to return to Kentucky in chains, until the black community rallied to their cause. The Blackburn Riot of 1833 was the first racial uprising in Detroit history."
language: English
title: I've Got a Home in Gloryland: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
titlecomplete: I've Got a Home in Gloryland: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
genres: Biography, Civil War, Canada, Nonfiction, American History, History, African American
ratings_count: 204
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux