By Karolyn Smardz Frost. Toronto: Harper Collins Publishers Ltd., 2017.
One of the best books I've read in a long time!
Piecing together historical and archaeological evidence, Frost tells the true story of Cecelia Jane Reynolds, a black woman born in slavery who escaped to Canada via the Underground Railroad. That would have been a great story in itself, but the author goes on to relate the rest of Reynolds' life, including her years spent in England and her return to Kentucky after the Civil War, to the home of the woman who had once been her mistress.
Every chapter of this book is brimming with historical details that will have you constantly putting down the book to mull these details over. With everything from the conditions of and attitudes toward black people at various times and in various places, to details about what modern towns were like in the nineteenth century and so much more, these little nuggets are by far the most attractive thing about this wonderful book.
Purchase it here. https://www.amazon.ca/Steal-Away-Home-Womans-Freedom/dp/1554682517
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