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To free a family : the journey of Mary Walker
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- Creator
- Sydney Nathans
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012
- Physical Details
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- 330 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780674063297, 0674063295, 9780674062122, 0674062124
- OCLC
- ocn776587012, ocn709670250
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-307) and index.
- Prologue: A Secret Striving -- Reluctant Runaway -- Sanctuary -- "In the Midst of Friends" -- "Never Reject the Claims of Fugitive" -- The Rescue Plot -- "A Spirit Like a Dove" -- A Season of Silence -- "A Case of Heart-Rending Distress" -- If They Die for Their Freedom, Amen -- "The Welfare of Her Race" -- "To Part No More" -- Epilogue: "Their Works Do Follow Them."
Subjects
- Walker, Mary, -1872.
- Walker, Mary, -1872 -- Family.
- Fugitive slaves -- Northeastern States -- Biography.
- Enslaved women -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Biography.
- African American women -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Biography.
- Family reunions -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- History -- 19th century.
- Cambridge (Mass.) -- Biography.
- Orange County (N.C.) -- Biography.