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Recounts how Peter Still, after more than forty years in bondage, bought his freedom, traveled north to find his mother and siblings, and then returned south to set in motion the events leading to freedom for his wife and children....
Introduces the reasons for and highlights the details of the trip of the Pilgrims from England to America in the early 1600s, and describes the struggle of the new settlers to adjust to life in America....
When John Price took a chance at freedom by crossing the frozen Ohio river from Kentucky into Ohio one January night in 1856, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was fully enforced in every state of the union. But the townspeople of Oberlin, Ohio, believe...