To Free a Family The Journey of Mary Walker

Name: To Free a Family The Journey of Mary Walker
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ISBN: 9780674725942

ISBN-10: 0674725948

ISBN-13: 9780674725942

Edition: 2013

Authors: Sydney Nathans

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What was it like for a mother to flee slavery, leaving her children behind?" To Free a Family" tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North and spent the next seventeen years trying to recover her family. Her freedom, like that of thousands who escaped from bondage, came at a great price--remorse at parting without a word, fear for her family's fate.This story is anchored in two extraordinary collections of letters and diaries, that of her former North Carolina slaveholders and that of the northern family--Susan and Peter Lesley--who protected and employed her. Sydney Nathans' sensitive and penetrating narrative reveals Mary Walker's…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/18/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 5.35" wide x 8.27" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Sydney Nathans is Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University.



Prologue: A Secret Striving



Reluctant Runaway



Sanctuary



"In the Midst of Friends"



"Never Reject the Claims of the Fugitive"



The Rescue Plot



"A Spirit Like a Dove"



A Season of Silence



"A Case of Heart Breaking Distress"



If They Die for Their Freedom, Amen



"The Welfare of Her Race"



"To Part No More"


Epilogue: "Their Works Do Follow Them"


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index