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Fradin, Dennis Brindell

Bound for the North Star: True Stories of Fugitive Slaves

206 pp. | Clarion | October, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-395-97017-2 $$20.00

(2) 4-6 Fradin assembles more than a dozen compelling narratives of slaves' flight to freedom, often taken from contemporary first-person accounts. Beginning with the subjects' lives under slavery, the combined narratives present a portrait of pervasive inhumane practices in the South and the network that arose in the North to assist the escaping slaves. The text is illustrated with archival black-and-white photographs and engravings. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2001