Forbidden fruit
Subtitle: love stories from the Underground Railroad
By: Betty DeRamus.
Edition: 1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Underground railroad -- Anecdotes; Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography -- Anecdotes; Couples -- United States -- Biography -- Anecdotes; Love -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Anecdotes; African Americans -- Biography -- Anecdotes; Whites -- United States -- Biography -- Anecdotes; United States -- Race relations -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes.; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-257) and index.
Table of contents: title: Book I, The Rebels.; title: Love in a time of hate --; title: A love worth waiting for --; title: The special delivery package --; title: The man who couldn't grow a beard --; title: Even a blind horse knows the way --; title: The slave who knew his name --; title: Footprints in the snow --; title: Chased by wolves --; title: The woman on John Little's back --; title: Angeline's blues -- -- Book II, Crossing the color line.; title: Suspicious lynchings --; title: Passing white --; title: Passing for black --; title: Mixed marriages in deadly times: a chronology --; title: Hound dogs hate red pepper --; title: The schoolteacher had to duck dead cats -- -- Book III, Free at last.; title: Guns and pickles.