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Flee north : a forgotten hero and the fight for freedom in slavery's borderland / Scott Shane.

by Shane, Scott, 1954- author.

New York, NY : Celadon Books, 2023.

Subjects

Smallwood, Thomas, 1801-1883.

Torrey, Charles T. (Charles Turner), 1813-1846.

Slatter, Hope H. (Hope Hull), 1790-1853.

African American abolitionists -- Biography.

Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography.

Underground Railroad.

Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century.

Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 19th century.

Toronto (Ont.) -- Biography.

ISBN:

9781250843210 (hardcover) :

1250843219 (hardcover)

Description:

viii, 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Contents:

The most inhuman system that ever blackened the pages of history -- Until no slave should be found in our land -- That mock metropolis of freedom -- The flesh-mongers -- Slavery's borderland -- Safe from the fangs of Robert Gilmor -- The laughingstock letters -- That vile wretch Slatter -- Very vigilant officers! -- Between two fires -- A fugitive from justice -- Perhaps reckless -- Let the strife go on -- Fly to Canada, and begin anew -- Resident capitalist -- No breeze comes.

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Summary:

"A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and popularized the term "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, Thomas Smallwood was free, self-educated, and working as a shoemaker a short walk from the U.S. Capitol by the 1840s. 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, this book -- the first to tell the extraordinary story of Smallwood -- will offer complicated heroes, genuine villains, and a powerful narrative set in cities still plagued by shocking racial inequity today"--Provided by publisher.

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Location	Collection	Call No.	Status	Due Date
Hanapepe Public Library	Adult Nonfiction	973.7115 Smallwood Sh	Checked In		Add Copy to MyList
Hawaii State Library	Adult New Books	973.7115 Smallwood Sh	Item being held		Add Copy to MyList
Hilo Public Library	Adult Nonfiction	973.7115 Smallwood Sm	Item being held		Add Copy to MyList
Kailua-Kona Public Library	Adult Nonfiction	973.7115 Smallwood Sh	Checked In		Add Copy to MyList
Kaimuki Public Library	Adult New Books	973.7115 Smallwood Sh	Checked In		Add Copy to MyList
Kihei Public Library	Adult Nonfiction	973.7115 Smallwood Sh	Checked In		Add Copy to MyList
Liliha Public Library	Adult New Books	973.7115 Smallwood Sh	Checked In		Add Copy to MyList
McCully-Moiliili Public Library	Adult Biography	B Smallwood Sh	Checked out	05/07/2024	Add Copy to MyList
Mililani Public Library	Adult Nonfiction	973.7115 Smallwood Sh	Checked In		Add Copy to MyList
Pearl City Public Library	Adult Biography	973.7115 Smallwood Sh	Checked In		Add Copy to MyList

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