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

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

Book 2023

"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 shor...