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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Smardz Frost, Karolyn.     Subjects     Larrison, Cecelia.     Ballard, Fanny Thruston.     Slaves -- Kentucky -- Louisville -- Biography.     Slaveholders -- Kentucky -- Louisville -- Biography.     Fugitive slaves -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Biography.     Women, Black -- Kentucky -- Louisville -- Biography.     Women, Black -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Biography.     Blacks -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Biography.     Women, White -- Kentucky -- Louisville -- Biography.     Underground Railroad.     Louisville (Ky.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.     Louisville (Ky.) -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Smardz Frost, Karolyn.       by title:      Steal away home : on...       by call number:      306.362092 L334s     Search the Web     Smardz Frost, Karolyn.     Larrison, Cecelia.     Ballard, Fanny Thruston.     Slaves -- Kentucky -- Louisville -- Biography.     Slaveholders -- Kentucky -- Louisville -- Biography.     Fugitive slaves -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Biography.     Women, Black -- Kentucky -- Louisville -- Biography.     Women, Black -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Biography.     Blacks -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Biography.     Women, White -- Kentucky -- Louisville -- Biography.     Underground Railroad.     Louisville (Ky.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.     Louisville (Ky.) -- Biography.       MARC Display

Steal away home : one woman's epic flight to freedom - and her long road back to the South / Karolyn Smardz Frost. by Smardz Frost, Karolyn. HarperCollins Canada, c2017. Call #: 306.362092 L334s Subjects Larrison, Cecelia.   Ballard, Fanny Thruston.   Slaves -- Kentucky -- Louisville -- Biography.   Slaveholders -- Kentucky -- Louisville -- Biography.   Fugitive slaves -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Biography.   Women, Black -- Kentucky -- Louisville -- Biography.   Women, Black -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Biography.   Blacks -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Biography.   Women, White -- Kentucky -- Louisville -- Biography.   Underground Railroad.   Louisville (Ky.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.   Louisville (Ky.) -- Biography. ISBN:  9781554682515 (hc.) Description:  xxiii, 408 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. 432 pages : illustrations, maps. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index. Summary:  The story of a fifteen-year-old escaped slave named Cecelia Reynolds, who, in 1846, slips away to freedom in Canada while her Kentucky owners holiday at Niagara Falls. Author Karolyn Smardz Frost brings Cecelia's story to life. Cecelia was a teenager when she made her dangerous bid for freedom from the United States, across the Niagara River and into Canada. Escape meant that she would never see her mother or brother again. She would be cut off from the young mistress with whom she grew up, but who also owned her. This was a time when people could be property, when a beloved father could be separated from his wife while their children were auctioned off to the highest bidder, and the son of a white master and his black housekeeper could become a slave to his own white half-sister and brother-in-law. Cecelia found a new life in Toronto's vibrant African American expatriate community. Her rescuer became her husband, a courageous conductor on the Underground Railroad helping other freedom-seekers reach Canada. Widowed, she braved the Fugitive Slave Law to cross back into the United States, where she again found love, and followed her William into the battlefields of the Civil War. Finally, with a wounded husband and young children in tow, she returned to the Kentucky she had known as a child. But her home had changed: hooded Night Riders roamed the countryside with torches and nooses at the ready. When William disappeared, Cecelia relied on the support and affection of her former mistress - the Southern belle who had owned her as a child. Only five of the letters between Cecelia and her former mistress, Fanny Thruston Ballard, have survived. They are testament to the great love and the lifelong friendship that existed between these two very different women. Reunited after years apart, the two lived within a few blocks of each other for the rest of Fanny's life. Historian, archaeologist and award-winning author Karolyn Smardz Frost is an Acadia University adjunct professor. She won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction in 2007 for I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Biography 306.362092 L334s Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Biography 306.362092 L334s Core Collection - Adult Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 306.362092 L334s Adult books Checked out Jun 06, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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