I've Got a Home in Glory Land

By Karolyn Smardz-frost format: trade paperback publication: December 2007 ISBN: 9780887623387

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Winner of the 2007 Governor General's Literary Awards for Non-fiction.

This epic story is the first entirely original biography of a fugitive slave couple since the 19th century.

I’ve Got a Home in Gloryland is the fascinating and absorbing story of Thornton and Lucie Blackburn, two fugitive slaves from Kentucky who made a daring daylight escape from slavery in 1831. Smardz Frost has written an epic account of this couple’s extraordinary life and their struggle for freedom – the choices they made, the dangers they faced, and the courage they had to forge ahead and create new lives for themselves. It is both a devastating portrait of the conditions – and the politics – of slavery and an inspiring account of two intrepid fugitive slaves whose flight to freedom changed US and Canadian history.

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