The longer and more detailed narratives of freedom-seekers are included in this volume, representing the escape experiences of about 150 former slaves.
“The more they stayed in the abyss of backwardness the better,” a historian of the Dinka, Francis Mading Deng, has written of the British attitudes toward the tribes of the south. The son of a famous “Paramount Chief' of the Ngok Dinka, ...
Winner of the Books for a Better Life/Suze Orman First Book Award May 1986: Seven-year-old Francis Bok was selling his mother's eggs and peanuts near his village in southern Sudan when Arab raiders on horseback burst into the quiet ...
A present-day escaped slave recounts his brutal capture and enslavement at the age of seven, his harrowing escape to a refugee camp and finally America, his education, and his ongoing work as an anti-slavery activist. 100,000 first printing ...
A present-day escaped slave recounts his brutal capture and enslavement at the age of seven, his harrowing escape to a refugee camp and finally America, his education, and his ongoing work as an anti-slavery activist.
Illus. in black-and-white. Opening note by Coretta Scott King. For the firsttime, the most important account ever written of a childhood in slavery isaccessible to young readers. From his days...
Here are their gripping stories, told by Doreen Rappaport, illustrated by Charles Lilly, and accompanied by information about slave laws of the era, key Underground Railroad leaders, and a bibliography.
In nineteenth-century Cincinnati, fourteen-year-old Tim Allerton finds his anti-slavery views tested when he and his younger sister Pam save the life of a slave baby whose mother has recently been murdered.
A shortened autobiography presenting the early life of the slave who became an abolitionist, journalist, and statesman.
Escape from Slavery
Five accounts of black slaves who managed to escape to freedom during the period preceding the Civil War.
In nineteenth-century Cincinnati, fourteen-year-old Tim Allerton finds his anti-slavery views tested when he and his younger sister Pam save the life of a slave baby whose mother has recently been murdered.
Five accounts of black slaves who managed to escape to freedom during the period preceding the Civil War.