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Stolen : five free boys kidnapped into slavery and their astonishing odyssey home / Richard Bell.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501169434
- Physical Description: 318 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition: First 37 INK/Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : 37 INK/Simon & Schuster, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Valemount Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Valemount Public Library | anf 306.362 bel (Text) | 35194014297212 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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"A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South -- and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice, reminiscent of Twelve Years A Slave and Never Caught"-- - Baker & Taylor
A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South also chronicles their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice. (United States history). 75,000 first printing. Illustrations. - Simon and Schuster
A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South'and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice, reminiscent of Twelve Years a Slave and Never Caught.
Philadelphia, 1825: five young, free black boys fall into the clutches of the most fearsome gang of kidnappers and slavers in the United States. Lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay, they are instead met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their kidnappers drive them overland into the Cotton Kingdom to be sold as slaves. Determined to resist, the boys form a tight brotherhood as they struggle to free themselves and find their way home.
Their ordeal'an odyssey that takes them from the Philadelphia waterfront to the marshes of Mississippi and then onward still'shines a glaring spotlight on the Reverse Underground Railroad, a black market network of human traffickers and slave traders who stole away thousands of legally free African Americans from their families in order to fuel slavery's rapid expansion in the decades before the Civil War.
Impeccably researched and breathlessly paced, Stolen tells the incredible story of five boys whose courage forever changed the fight against slavery in America. - Simon and Schuster
A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep Southâand their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice, reminiscent of Twelve Years a Slave and Never Caught.
Philadelphia, 1825: five young, free black boys fall into the clutches of the most fearsome gang of kidnappers and slavers in the United States. Lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay, they are instead met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their kidnappers drive them overland into the Cotton Kingdom to be sold as slaves. Determined to resist, the boys form a tight brotherhood as they struggle to free themselves and find their way home.
Their ordealâan odyssey that takes them from the Philadelphia waterfront to the marshes of Mississippi and then onward stillâshines a glaring spotlight on the Reverse Underground Railroad, a black market network of human traffickers and slave traders who stole away thousands of legally free African Americans from their families in order to fuel slaveryâs rapid expansion in the decades before the Civil War.
Impeccably researched and breathlessly paced, Stolen tells the incredible story of five boys whose courage forever changed the fight against slavery in America.
