I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad

It was the day before Independence Day, 1833. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be sold...
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Author: Karolyn Smardz Frost
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Language: English
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I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad by Frost, Karolyn Smardz

I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad

€30,83

I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad

€30,83
Author: Karolyn Smardz Frost
Format: Paperback
Language: English

It was the day before Independence Day, 1833. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be sold down the river, Thornton Blackburn planned a daring--and successful--daylight escape from their Louisville masters. Pursued to Michigan, the couple was captured and sentenced to return to Kentucky in chains. But Detroit's black community rallied to their cause in the Blackburn Riots of 1833, the first racial uprising in the city's history. Thornton and Lucie were spirited across the river to Canada, but their safety proved illusory when Michigan's governor demanded their extradition. Canada's defense of the Blackburns set the tone for all future diplomatic relations with the United States over the thorny issue of the fugitive slave, and confirmed the British colony as the main terminus of the Underground Railroad.

The Blackburns settled in Toronto, where they founded the city's first taxi business, but they never forgot the millions who still suffered in slavery. Working with prominent abolitionists, Thornton and Lucie made their home a haven for runaways. When they died in the 1890s with no descendants to pass on their fascinating tale, it was lost to history. Lost, that is, until archaeologists brought the story of Thornton and Lucie Blackburn again to light.

Author: Karolyn Smardz Frost
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 06/24/2008
Pages: 488
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780374531256
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 08/03/2008 pg. 20
Ebony 10/01/2008 pg. 60

About the Author

Karolyn Smardz Frost is internationally recognized for her work in public archaeology and history. A native of Toronto, she now lives in Collingwood, Ontario.


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