Escape From Slavery

Author : Francis Bok
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429971010
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escape from Slavery written by Francis Bok and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking modern slave narrative, Francis Bok shares his remarkable story with grace, honesty, and a wisdom gained from surviving ten years in captivity. May, 1986: Selling his mother's eggs and peanuts near his village in southern Sudan, seven year old Francis Bok's life was shattered when Arab raiders on horseback, armed with rifles and long knives, burst into the quiet marketplace, murdering men and women and gathering the young children into a group. Strapped to horses and donkeys, Francis and others were taken north, into lives of slavery under wealthy Muslim farmers. For ten years, Francis lived alone in a shed near the goats and cattle that were his responsibility. Fed with scraps from the table, slowly learning bits of an unfamiliar language and religion, the boy had almost no human contact other than his captor's family. After two failed attempts to escape-each bringing severe beatings and death threats-Francis finally escaped at age seventeen, a dramatic breakaway on foot that was his final chance. Yet his slavery did not end there, for even as he made his way toward the capital city of Khartoum, others sought to deprive him of his freedom. Determined to avoid that fate and discover what had happened to his family on that terrible day in 1986, the teenager persevered through prison and refugee camps for three more years, winning the attention of United Nations officials and being granted passage to America. Now a student and an anti-slavery activist, Francis Bok has made it his life mission to combat world slavery. His is the first voice to speak for an estimated twenty seven million people held against their will in nearly every nation, including our own. Escape from Slavery is at once a riveting adventure, a story of desperation and triumph, and a window revealing a world that few have survived to tell.

Author : Doreen Rappaport
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0064461696
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escape from Slavery written by Doreen Rappaport and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1998-12-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom! Eliza and her baby, running across the ice. Selena and Cornelia Jackson, masquerading as boys. Henry Box Brown, shipping himself north in a wooden crate. Jane Johnson, risking everything to testify against her former owner in court. Ellen Craft, posing as her husband's owner. Escaping from slavery against overwhelming odds, these people were helped by courage, ingenuity, and the informal network known as the Underground Railroad. Here are their gripping stories, told by Doreen Rappaport, illustrated by Charles Lilly, and accompanied by information about slave laws of the era, key Underground Railroad leaders, and a bibliography.

Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781978444942
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Escape from Slavery written by Frederick Douglass and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Maryland around February 1818. He escaped in 1838, but in each of the three accounts he wrote of his life he did not give any details of how he gained his freedom lest slaveholders use the information to prevent other slaves from escaping, and to prevent those who had helped him from being punished.

Author : Cathy Moore
Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 0761366733
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ellen Craft's Escape from Slavery written by Cathy Moore and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1840s, runaway slaves faced many dangers. They were often caught and sometimes killed. Ellen Craft and her husband William knew the risks. And they decided to take a chance. Ellen and William had a daring plan to escape from slavery. Posing as a white man, Ellen hoped to travel north as William's slave master. But the two had many states to cross. Would they reach freedom? Or would someone see through Ellen's disguise? In the back of this book, you'll find a script and instructions for putting on a reader's theater performance of this adventure. Download additional copies of the script plus sound effects, background images, and more ideas that will help make your reader's theater performance a success through Lerner eSource.

Author : Ellen Craft
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom written by Ellen Craft and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-25 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook edition of "Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom" is a written account by Ellen Craft and William Craft first published in 1860. Their book reached wide audiences in Great Britain and the United States and it represents one of the most compelling of the many slave narratives published before the American Civil War. Ellen (1826–1891) and William Craft (1824 - 1900) were slaves from Macon, Georgia in the United States who escaped to the North in December 1848 by traveling openly by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day.

Author : Moses Roper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781409985600
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery written by Moses Roper and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moses Roper (c. 1815-1891) was a mulatto slave who wrote one of the major early books about life as a slave in the United States - A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper From American Slavery (1838). Moses was born in Caswell County, North Carolina. He grew up with his mother and was trained as a domestic slave until he was about seven years old when his father exchanged him and his mother for other slaves. Roper struggled tremendously when he was put to work in the fields and forests of the South-receiving harsher treatment for his inefficiency from his overseers and masters. Throughout his time in slavery, Moses attempted escape on at least 16 occasions, most of them while under his cruelest master, Mr. Gooch. He became quite famous in England because of his grand escape from American slavery and the book he later wrote about his life as a slave. In his book, he made sure to include explicit examples of the torture methods used by slave holders.

Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780785725312
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escape from Slavery written by Frederick Douglass and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1993-12-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shortened autobiography presenting the early life of the slave who became an abolitionist, journalist, and statesman

Author : Jehan Jones-Radgowski
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1684461243
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Escape of Robert Smalls written by Jehan Jones-Radgowski and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mist in Charleston Inner Harbor was heavy, but not heavy enough to disguise the stolen Confederate steamship, the Planter, from Confederate soldiers. In the early hours of May 13, 1862, in the midst of the deadly U.S. Civil War, an enslaved man named Robert Smalls was about to carry out a perilous plan of escape. Standing at the helm of the ship, Smalls impersonated the captain as he and his crew passed heavily armed Confederate forts to enter Union territory, where escaped slaves were given shelter. The suspenseful escape of the determined crew is celebrated with beautiful artwork and insightful prose, detailing the true account of an unsung American hero.

Author : Duchess Harris
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1532170599
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oney Judge: Escape from Slavery and the President's House written by Duchess Harris and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President George Washington and his wife enslaved more than 150 people in the mid-1700s. In 1796, one of their slaves escaped. Her name was Oney "Ona" Judge. Oney Judge: Escape from Slavery and the President's House explores her story and her legacy. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : Cate Lineberry
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250101867
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Be Free Or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero written by Cate Lineberry and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a mild May morning in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1862, the second year of the Civil War, when a 23-year-old enslaved man named Robert Smalls boldly seized a Confederate steamer. With his wife and two young children hidden on board, Smalls and a small crew ran a gauntlet of heavily armed fortifications in Charleston Harbour and delivered the valuable vessel and the massive guns it carried to nearby Union forces. Smalls' courageous and ingenious act freed him and his family from slavery and immediately made him a Union hero. It also challenged much of the country's view of what African Americans were willing to do for their freedom. In 'Be Free or Die, ' Cate Lineberry tells the remarkable story of Smalls' escape and his many accomplishments during the war, including becoming the first black captain of an Army vessel