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To free a family : the journey of Mary Walker

"What was it like for a mother to flee slavery, leaving her children behind? To Free a Family tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North and spent the next seventeen years trying to recover her family."--Jacket.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nathans, Sydney.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2012.
Subjects and Genres:
Walker, Mary, > d. 1872.
Walker, Mary, > d. 1872 > Family.
Fugitive slaves > Northeastern States > Biography.
Women slaves > North Carolina > Orange County > Biography.
African American women > Massachusetts > Cambridge > Biography.
Family reunions > Massachusetts > Cambridge > History > 19th century.
Cambridge (Mass.) > Biography.
Orange County (N.C.) > Biography.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: A Secret Striving
  • Reluctant Runaway
  • Sanctuary
  • "In the Midst of Friends"
  • "Never Reject the Claims of Fugitive"
  • The Rescue Plot
  • "A Spirit Like a Dove"
  • A Season of Silence
  • "A Case of Heart-Rending Distress"
  • If They Die for Their Freedom, Amen
  • "The Welfare of Her Race"
  • "To Part No More"
  • Epilogue: "Their Works Do Follow Them."

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