The Second Escape of Arthur Cooper

by Cynthia M. Stowe

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761450696
• ISBN13: 9780761450696
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Quakers in Nantucket help a runaway slave and his family.

Arthur Cooper was a real person who, as a young man, escaped slavery in Virginia and went north to Massachusetts, where he married a free-born African-American woman, had several children, and moved to Nantucket Island, where in 1822 he was nearly captured by slave catchers but rescued by the Quaker community. The narrator of this novel is a fictional Quaker child, ten-year-old Phebe Folger. Arthur's wife, Mary, is hired by Phebe's father to care for her mother, bedridden since a carriage accident several months ago. Phebe has many concerns present in all children. She worries for her mother and resents her older sister's efforts to educate her. Phebe describes several months of her life as she gets to know the Cooper family. When the family is in danger of being captured, Phebe helps to save them. This was an inspiring novel about how a group of people, including young children, saw a great evil (slavery) and did whatever they could to prevent it. Younger children who enjoy historical fiction are sure to enjoy it.