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I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of t...
It was the day before Independence Day, 1833. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be sold down the river, Thornton Blackburn planned a daring--and successful--daylight escape from their Louisville masters. Pursued to Michigan, the couple was captured and sentenced to return to...
I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of t...
The freedom of Thornton and Lucie Blackburn became a cause celebre in the mid 1830s, sparking a race riot in Detroit & a diplomatic incident with Canada. Runaway slaves, Thornton & Lucie eventually settled in Toronto & worked tirelessly with other abolitionists against the slavery...
I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of t...
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction, 2007
It was the day before Independence Day, 1831. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be "sold down the river" to the slave markets of New Orleans, young Thornton Blackburn planned a daring - and...
I've Got a Home in Glory Land : A Lost Tale of ...
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