Free boy
Subtitle: a true story of slave and master
By: Lorraine McConaghy, Judy Bentley
Contributors: Bentley, Judy
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780295804705; 9780295992716
Subjects: State & Local; JUVENILE NONFICTION; Blacks; Underground Railroad; Slaveholders; Slavery; Surveyors; Child slaves; Juvenile literature; HISTORY; Pacific Northwest (OR, Wash.); General; Fugitive slaves; Biography & Autobiography; History; Biography
Description: Tells the story of how thirteen-year-old slave Charles Mitchell escaped from James Tilton's household on a steamer bound for Victoria and received help from free blacks to achieve freedom in Canada in 1860.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 92-100).
Table of contents: title: James Tilton : The Making of a Master; title: Charles Mitchell : The Making of a Slave; title: Growing Up with the Territory; title: Charlie's Choice; title: Stowaway; title: "Wrongfully Detained"; title: "A Righteous Decision"; title: Tilton's Choice; title: James Tilton's War; title: Charles Mitchell's Peace; title: Epilogue: Free Men.