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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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2026.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The ballad of the fugitive William Parker : |b a true tale of love, murder, treason, and ordinary folks who saved America / |c Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a True tale of love, murder, treason, and ordinary folks who saved America |
| 250 | |a First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Simon & Schuster, |c 2026. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2026 | |
| 300 | |a 432 pages ; |c 24 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
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| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-416) and index. | ||
| 520 | |a "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"-- |c Jacket flap. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Antislavery movements |z United States |x History |y 19th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Fugitive slaves |z United States |x History |y 19th centry. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Underground Railroad |z United States |x History |y 19th century. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Pennsylvania |x History |y Civil War, 1861-1865. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Pennsylvania |x History |y Civil War, 1861-1865 |x Religious aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Abolitionists |z United States |x History |y 19th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Quaker abolitionists |x History |y 19th century. | |
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