A Fugitive's Wife
A Fugitive's Wife

Author: Abrendal Austin

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780974806679

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Angela and Pearce were a happy African American couple in Los Angeles in the 1970s, but that changed when Pearce told his pregnant wife Angela that the police were after him for a robbery he didn't commit. The young girl said, "Whither thou goest " and left her home and family to flee with the husband she loved to Valdosta, Georgia, only to discover he had another woman.

The Fugitives
The Fugitives

Author: Christopher Sorrentino

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-02-09

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1476795746

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In their growing involvement with one another, each becomes a pawn in the other's game. As we weave among these characters, learning about their lives and motivations, and uncovering the conflicts and contradictions between their stories, we realize that the storyteller is not the only one with secrets to conceal that all three are fugitives of one kind or another. All the Sorrentino touches that have thrilled admirers are here: sparkling dialogue, satirical wit, attention to the details of everyday life, dizzyingly inventive prose but it is the deeply imagined interior lives of its all too human main characters that set this novel apart. Moving, funny, tense, and mysterious, The Fugitives is a love story, a ghost story, and a crime thriller.

Poems
Poems

Author: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Publisher:

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781018102689

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On a Clear Day You Can See L.A.
On a Clear Day You Can See L.A.

Author: Abrendal Austin

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780974806686

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"When fate turns a corner for Angela, a trip home to L.A. to see her mother seemed like a great way to break from the old and embrace the new. But the complications of the past won't stay in the past. As her trains reaches it's destination, things happen that are a far cry from anything Angela ever expected. A simple little visit turns upside down with profound effects on Angela and many others. A mysterious note ultimately leads to a startling shift in family dynamics. A questionable death brings revelations of past indescretions and present day consequences. A psychic of unknown repute drops hints with incredible repercussions. Old questions are answered but new ones are asked as Angela and her growing family navigate the treacherous twists and turns of fate. Angela's strength of character and her new confidence as an independent woman are put to the test. Haze and smog often hang over the city. But especially after a storm, the day is clear and you can, indeed, see L.A."--Publisher's description.

Solomon Northup
Solomon Northup

Author: David Fiske

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-08-12

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13:

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A companion to the classic African-American autobiographical narrative, Twelve Years A Slave, this work presents fascinating new information about the 1841 kidnapping, 1853 rescue, and pre- and post-slavery life of Solomon Northup. Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years A Slave provides a compelling chronological narrative of Northup's entire life, from his birth in an isolated settlement in upstate New York to the activities he pursued after his release from slavery. This comprehensive biography of Solomon Northup picks up where earlier annotated editions of his narrative left off, presenting fascinating, previously unknown information about the author of the autobiographical Twelve Years A Slave. This book examines Northup's life as a slave and reveals details of his life after he regained his freedom, relating how he traveled around the Northeast giving public lectures, worked with an Underground Railroad agent in Vermont to help fugitive slaves reach freedom in Canada, and was connected with several theatrical productions based upon his experiences. The tale of Northup's life demonstrates how the victims of the American system of slavery were not just the slaves themselves, but any free person of color—all of whom were potential kidnap victims, and whose lives were affected by that constant threat.

Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky Borderland
Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky Borderland

Author: J. Blaine Hudson

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-05-07

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1476604223

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Between 1783 and 1860, more than 100,000 enslaved African Americans escaped across the border between slave and free territory in search of freedom. Most of these escapes were unaided, but as the American anti-slavery movement became more militant after 1830, assisted escapes became more common. Help came from the Underground Railroad, which still stands as one of the most powerful and sustained multiracial human rights movements in world history. This work examines and interprets the available historical evidence about fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad in Kentucky, the southernmost sections of the free states bordering Kentucky along the Ohio River, and, to a lesser extent, the slave states to the immediate south. Kentucky was central to the Underground Railroad because its northern boundary, the Ohio River, represented a three hundred mile boundary between slavery and nominal freedom. The book examines the landscape of Kentucky and the surrounding states; fugitive slaves before 1850, in the 1850s and during the Civil War; and their motivations and escape strategies and the risks involved with escape. The reasons why people broke law and social convention to befriend fugitive slaves, common escape routes, crossing points through Kentucky from Tennessee and points south, and specific individuals who provided assistance--all are topics covered.