UNDERGROUND ESCAPE

by Evelyn C. Nevein ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Danny know he was in sympathy with the abolitionists, in Boston around 1850, but his Irish blood boiled when his friend, a Negro at the coach house, was reclaimed, after the Fugitive Slave Law was passed, and taken back to Georgia. Then his widowed mother decided to join forces with some relatives and move to Kansas, a Kansas torn by civil strife and border tensions. From there they go on a visit to her brother in Savannah, and are caught with the onset of the Civil War. Danny is suspected as an abolitionist; his mother secretly takes his side; they are spied on by his uncle's overseer. Eventually, taking with them Danny's old friend, they escape through the still operating channels of the Underground Railroad, and get back to Kansas. Good enough story, though not tops- with a new angle on the period.

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Publisher: Westminster

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1949

Categories: FICTION