The ballad of the fugitive William Parker a true tale of love, murder, treason, and ordinary folks who saved America
"The year: 1851. The place: a Quaker farming community turned Underground Railroad stronghold, where a Maryland enslaver has journeyed to in pursuit of four men who fled his plantation years before. In a few hours, he'll be dead... and twenty-seven men from the village of Christiana, Pennsylvania, w...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2026.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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| Summary: | "The year: 1851. The place: a Quaker farming community turned Underground Railroad stronghold, where a Maryland enslaver has journeyed to in pursuit of four men who fled his plantation years before. In a few hours, he'll be dead... and twenty-seven men from the village of Christiana, Pennsylvania, will be rounded up and put on trial. Not for murder, but for treason--for waging war against the United States--because it was a crime against the government to obstruct an enslaver looking to reclaim his 'property.' This is story of what happened in Christiana that September morning--and in the ensuing 'trial of the century,' which saw the president himself advise the prosecution on strategy and a sitting congressman serve as lead attorney for the defense. But The Ballad of the Fugitive William Parker is also a much larger tale, one spanning decades, following a whole startlingly diverse community of abolitionists in their fight to convince their fellow Americans of the subversive idea that now finds itself on trial: that the nation ought to live up to the ideals it was founded on and respect all people as equals. It's a story that whisks readers from the quiet farmlands of Lancaster County--where a self-emancipated man named William Parker rallies his neighbors to battle slavecatchers--to Philadelphia's genteel Society Hill, where socialite Harriet Forten Purvis charms the city's elite while hiding fugitives beneath her children's school-room. It's a stylish, propulsive, intimately human tale of bravery, ingenuity, and hope--and of ordinary people with little in common who come together to stand against injustice... and win"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 432 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-416) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781668035931 1668035936 |
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