Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their

Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home

A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep Southâ€”and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice, reminiscent of Twelve Years a Slave and Never Caught.

Philadelphia, 1825: five young, free black boys fall into the clutches of the most fearsome gang of kidnappers and slavers in the United States. Lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay, they are instead met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their kidnappers drive them overland into the Cotton Kingdom to be sold as slaves. Determined to resist, the boys form a tight brotherhood as they struggle to free themselves and find their way home.

Their ordealâ€”an odyssey that takes them from the Philadelphia waterfront to the marshes of Mississippi and then onward stillâ€”shines a glaring spotlight on the Reverse Underground Railroad, a black market network of human traffickers and slave traders who stole away thousands of legally free African Americans from their families in order to fuel slaveryâ€™s rapid expansion in the decades before the Civil War.

Impeccably researched and breathlessly paced, Stolen tells the incredible story of five boys whose courage forever changed the fight against slavery in America.
Country USA
Brand 37 Ink
Manufacturer 37 Ink
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2019-10-15
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781501169434

Country	USA
Brand	37 Ink
Manufacturer	37 Ink
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2019-10-15
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781501169434

Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home

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