Runaway Slaves
Subtitle: Rebels on the Plantation
Publisher: Tandem Library
Published: July 2003
Language: eng
Format: School & Library Binding
ISBN-13: 9780613586733
Subjects: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; United States - 19th Century; United States - General; History; History: American
First sentence: ON 17 AUGUST 1840, the day of a great Whig political convention in Nashville, Tennessee, Jake, a slave owned by an old and respected farmer, Robert Bradford, refused to go to work.