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Book

The price of freedom : how one town stood up to slavery

Call Number

  • J 973.7115 FRAD (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

New York : Walker Books for Young Readers, 2013.

Physical Description

1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.

Summary

Documents the efforts of an Ohio community to secure the freedom of escaped slave John Price, examining various aspects of Price's escape from Kentucky, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and the heroic showdown.

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