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Title To free a family : the journey of Mary Walker / Sydney Nathans.
Author Nathans, Sydney.
Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  B WALKER    Check Shelves
Description 330 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-307) and index.
Contents 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 Breaking Distress" -- If They Die for Their Freedom, Amen -- "The Welfare of Her Race" -- "To Part No More" -- Epilogue: "Their Works Do Follow Them."
Subject Walker, Mary, d. 1872.
Walker, Mary, d. 1872 -- Family.
Fugitive slaves -- Northeastern States -- Biography.
Women slaves -- 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.
ocls african american adult books
ISBN 9780674062122 (alk. paper) : $29.95
0674062124
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