Bound for the North Star
Subtitle: true stories of fugitive slaves
By: Dennis Brindell Fradin
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780395970171
Subjects: Fugitive slaves; Abolitionists; Underground Railroad; Juvenile literature; Antislavery movements; Biography
Description: Twelve accounts of slaves who escaped the South hoping for freedom and a new life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-200) and index.
Table of contents: title: Mary Prince; title: Fed; title: Eliza Harris and Margaret Garner; title: Peter and Vina Still; title: Henry "Box" Brown and Lear Green; title: Ellen and William Craft; title: William Wells Brown; title: The Oberlin-Wellington rescue of John Price; title: John Anderson; title: Ann Maria Weems; title: Solomon Northup; title: Harriet Tubman.