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Author Bell, Richard, 1978- author.

Title Stolen : five free boys kidnapped into slavery and their astonishing odyssey home / Richard Bell.

Publication Info. New York : 37 INK, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2019.
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 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  306.362 BEL    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  306.362 BELL    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  306.362 BELL    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  306.362 BEL    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  306.362 BELL    Check Shelf
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 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Nonfiction  306.362 BEL    Missing

Edition First 37 INK/Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-293) and index.
Contents Introduction: The reverse Underground Railroad -- Sanctuary city -- Black hearts -- Midnight land -- In-laws and outlaws -- The beaten way -- The body in the wagon -- The halfway house -- The lifeboat -- A living witness -- Hunting wolves -- Kidnappers all -- Conclusion: The first law of nature.
Summary Philadelphia, 1825. Five young, free black boys are lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay. They are instead met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their kidnappers drive them overland into the Cotton Kingdom to be sold as slaves. Determined to resist, the boys form a tight brotherhood as they struggle to free themselves and find their way home. Their ordeal shines a spotlight on the Reverse Underground Railroad, a black market network of human traffickers and slave traders who stole away thousands of legally free African Americans from their families in order to fuel slavery's rapid expansion in the decades before the Civil War. -- adapted from jacket
"A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South -- and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice, reminiscent of Twelve Years A Slave and Never Caught"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Kidnapping victims. (OCoLC)fst00987328
HISTORY / African American.
Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
Kidnapping victims -- United States -- Biography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery.
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Subject Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Free African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 19th century.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography.
African Americans -- Biography.
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
Fugitive slaves. (OCoLC)fst00935940
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Subject Enslaved children. (OCoLC)fst00854675
Enslaved children -- United States -- Biography.
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
ISBN 9781501169434 (hardcover)
1501169432 (hardcover)
9781501169458 (ebook)
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