Stealing freedom
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Author
Publication
1998 - Distributed by Random House, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
64,500 words, Guess
Page Count
258 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivestealingfreedom00carb_0
- Internet Archivestealingfreedom00carb_1
- ISBN-100679893075
- ISBN-10067999307X
- ISBN-139780679893073
Classifications
- DDC[Fic]
- LCCPZ7.C1865 Su 1998
- LCCPZ7.C1865Su 1998
Description
Twelve-year-old Ann Maria Weems works from sunup to sundown, wraps rags around her feet in the winter, and must do whatever her master or mistress orders--but she has something that many plantation slaves don't have. She has her wonderful family around her. To Ann, her teasing brothers, her older sister, and her protective and loving parents are everything. And then one day, they are gone. Separated from her family by her master and shipped off as a housemaid, Ann learns something about independence and about love before the opportunity for escape arrives. A white man risks his life for Ann, cuts her hair short, dresses her like a boy, and launches her on her journey on the Underground Railroad to Canada, her family, and finally to freedom. Until she was a teenager, Ann Maria Weems lived in the mid-1800s near the author's home in Maryland. This fictionalized account of her extraordinary life is ideal for students, teachers, and parents hungry for interesting and informative reading in African-American history and the Underground Railroad.
Description
A novel based on the events in the life of a young slave girl from Maryland who endures all kinds of mistreatment and cruelty, including being separated from her family, but who eventually escapes to freedom in Canada.
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Genres
- Fiction
- Juvenile fiction
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