Stolen : five free boys kidnapped into slavery and their astonishing odyssey home

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Stolen : five free boys kidnapped into slavery and their astonishing odyssey home

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five free boys kidnapped into slavery and their astonishing odyssey home

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Richard Bell

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eng

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"A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South -- 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 are 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 ordeal shines a 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 slavery's rapid expansion in the decades before the Civil War. -- adapted from jacket

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collective biography

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LBSOR/DLC

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306.3/620973/09034

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illustrations

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index present

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E444

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.B38 2019

Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography

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