Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland by Scott Shane
- Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland
- Scott Shane
- Page: 352
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9781250843234
- Publisher: Celadon Books
Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland
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A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and named the underground railroad, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Scott Shane. Flee North tells the story for the first time of an American hero all but lost to history. Born into slavery, by the 1840s Thomas Smallwood was free, self-educated, and working as a shoemaker a short walk from the U.S. Capitol. He recruited a young white activist, Charles Torrey, and together they began to organize mass escapes from Washington, Baltimore, and surrounding counties to freedom in the north. They were racing against an implacable enemy: men like Hope Slatter, the region’s leading slave trader, part of a lucrative industry that would tear one million enslaved people from their families and sell them to the brutal cotton and sugar plantations of the deep south. Men, women, and children in imminent danger of being sold south turned to Smallwood, who risked his own freedom to battle what he called “the most inhuman system that ever blackened the pages of history.” And he documented the escapes in satirical newspaper columns, mocking the slaveholders, the slave traders and the police who worked for them. At a time when Americans are rediscovering a tragic and cruel history and struggling anew with the legacy of white supremacy, Flee North — the first to tell the extraordinary story of Smallwood — offers complicated heroes, genuine villains, and a powerful narrative set in cities still plagued by shocking racial inequity today.
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Flee North tells the story for the first time of an American hero all but lost to history. Born into slavery, by the 1840s Thomas Smallwood was
Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in
Born into slavery, by the 1840s Thomas Smallwood was free, self-educated, and working as a shoemaker a short walk from the U.S. Capitol. He
Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in
A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and named
Flee North
Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland is a 2023 biography of Thomas Smallwood written by American journalist Scott
Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in
Flee North tells the story for the first time of an American hero all but lost to history. Born into slavery, by the 1840s Thomas Smallwood was
Flee North
A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland. Author flee American slavery and settle there in the ensuing decades. Three
Flee North by Scott Shane
An account of the abolitionist Thomas Smallwood led hundreds out of slavery, and popularized "underground railroad," from Pulitzer Prize-winner Scott Shane.
Scott Shane's 'Flee North,' story of abolitionist Thomas
slavery and the Civil War. Flee North. A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland. By Scott Shane. Celadon. 340 pp. $30.
Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in
A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and named
Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom
Born into slavery, by the 1840s Thomas Smallwood was free, self-educated, and working as a shoemaker a short walk from the U.S. Capitol. He
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