Escape from slavery : five journeys to freedom

Rappaport, Doreen, author.

Book 1991

Five accounts of black slaves who managed to escape to freedom during the period preceding the Civil War.

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African Americans Biography Juvenile literature

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ISBN:

9780060216313
0060216328
006021631X

Description:

x, 117 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:

"Ages 9-12"--Jacket
Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-117)

Contents:

The river of ice
Free like the wind
A shipment of dry goods
Pretending
"Two tickets for Mr. Johnson and slave"

LCCN:

90038170

Control Number:

36730

Other Authors:

Lilly, Charles, illustrator