#two4tuesday @thespineview
1. Tagged. I have had this book on my TBR for years. What a title!
2. No. I have thought about pre-ordering The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, but it is coming out around my birthday, so I will wait and see if it gets gifted. I'm considering pre-ordering 49 Miles Alone, but the library is so much cheaper :-)
pickThis is a very good, informative book about a couple that attempt to escape slavery. This is a true story and the couple is connected to Frederick Douglass, among others. It's very eye opening what they had to endure and the lengths they went to find freedom. I read this for a book club.
pickIncredible and important story well told.
📬 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐥 / 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐛 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 📖
I suggested 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐬𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝗪𝐢𝐟𝐞 by 𝐈𝐥𝐲𝐨𝐧 𝗪𝐨𝐨 to my in-person book club, & all enthusiastically agreed to read & discuss it at our next meeting. It's the amazing true story of how Ellen & William Craft escaped slavery through daring & disguise. Ellen passed as a wealthy, disabled White man & William posed as “his” slave. Thank you, Simon & Schuster!
pickListened to this one over audio but need to get a copy for myself. Definitely worth the praise. It is long & very detailed. I thought it was fascinating. Especially as a person that recently moved to Boston to learn more about the abolition movement here (& the Craft‘s lived here for a part of their lives). I really enjoy learning so much more than what I was taught many years ago about the abolition movement. As well as the narratives of people
pickInspired by true events, Sue Monk Kidd brings both history and these characters to life. It‘s a beautiful book.
pickSo engrossing. This read like an adventure novel but is actual history and the author cites his sources, even including an appendix of the pseudonymous articles published in abolitionist papers. Highly recommend.
It was your cruelty to him that made him disappear by that same“under ground rail-road“ or “steam balloon,“ about which one of your city constables was swearing so bitterly . . .
Thomas Smallwood in his laughingstock letters August 10, 1842
First mention in print of an underground railroad helping slaves escape north, per the tagged book. Within a few months it has been adopted across the nation for the ways slaves escape to freedom.
pickDeserving of all the praise heaped upon it: a nonfiction book that reads like fiction. The story of a couple who are determined to be free, no matter the cost. Enslaved and desperate for escape, Ellen and William make a plan to travel by train to the northern states. Ellen has light skin and uses this to her advantage to pose as William‘s master during their journey to freedom. The next section features many historical figures from the period.
pickThomas Smallwood is a name you might not know from the abolition movement. This is a man who not only bought his own freedom, but was the one who named The Underground Railroad. Born a slave, Smallwood educated himself and found work as a shoemaker in DC. From there, he worked with Charles Torrey to get other enslaved people to freedom in the North from the DC and Baltimore areas.
