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L' ultime traversée vers la liberté

LIBRAIRIE CARCAJOU
L' ultime traversée vers la liberté
De Librairie Carcajou
Just 11 when he flees from his Georgia plantation, Salomon avoids the slave catchers and reaches the border separating the United States from Canada. But his grandfather - his only remaining family - has been injured and would not survive the crossing. If Salomon does reach Canada, how will he make his way without Grandpa Jacob at his side? After 1850, when the Fugitive Slave Act passed, it was even more dangerous for runaway slaves to live in the United States (the Act threatened fines or imprisonment for anyone who did not turn escaping slaves over to the authorities). During this period, fugitives passed over the border into Canada. Free Blacks did live in the northern states, but even in Canada, slave catchers sometimes kidnapped them and dragged them back to the South.
Original title:Crossing to Freedom