Scott Shane
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Belmont Library Latest: Best of 2023 (January 9, 2024)
Cary Library's Black History Month List 2024
STO: Critics' Choice
Cary Library's Black History Month List 2024
STO: Critics' Choice
Description
"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...