
Stolen
The Astonishing Odyssey of Five Boys Along the Reverse Underground Railroad
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Leon Nixon
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Richard Bell
This “superbly researched and engaging” (The Wall Street Journal) 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 belongs “alongside the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edward P. Jones, and Toni Morrison” (Jane Kamensky, professor of American history at Harvard University).
Philadelphia, 1825: Five young, free Black boys fall into the clutches of the most fearsome gang of kidnappers and slavers in the US. 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 - an odyssey that takes them from the Philadelphia waterfront to the marshes of Mississippi and then onward still - shines a glaring 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.
Impeccably researched and breathlessly paced, Stolen tells the incredible story of five boys whose courage forever changed the fight against slavery in America.
“Rigorously researched, heartfelt, and dramatically concise, Bell’s investigation illuminates the role slavery played in the systemic inequalities that still confront Black Americans.” (Booklist)
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I learned some new history!
Phenomenal Research!
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Good History Book
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meh.
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Eye opening
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The author’s repetitive quirk of listing by name each child was also annoying.
If it weren’t the topic for a meeting of my local Coming To The Table Book Circle, I probably would have quit before the ending.
Should have been a fact based novel
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Sad and uplifting at the same time
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Interesting take on slave trading
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shocking and heartbreaking
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Excellent story very well written and read.
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