I'VE GOT A HOME IN GLORYLAND: A LOST TALE OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD **SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR**

FROST, KAROLYN SMARDZ

ISBN 10: 088762250X / ISBN 13: 9780887622502

Published by Thomas Allen Publishers, Toronto, 2007

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pp: 450 D. The first Canadian edition, no doubt, less common than the American edition. This copy has been inscribed, dated, and signed by the author on the free endpaper. There are three related documents laid in. The first is a promotional post card with the jacket illustration reated on one side. And, an invitation to a signing of the book in Toronto in February, 2007. The second document is a map of nineteenth century Toronto with the location of the Thornton Blackburn home pinpointed. The third document has a photocopy of a newspaper piece on Blackburn on one side, and a photocopy of the reward offered for the return of escaped slave Thornton. This notice is in the Louisville, Kentucky public archives, and is dated 1831. The book offers a history of the Underground Railroad, using the experience of Thornton Blackburn. Overall, it is a very good copy, or a little better, in dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: I'VE GOT A HOME IN GLORYLAND: A LOST TALE OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD **SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR**
• Publisher: Thomas Allen Publishers, Toronto
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 088762250X
• ISBN 13: 9780887622502
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 0.83 kilograms
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • THE AMERICAS
  • CANADIAN HISTORY
  • SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

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Synopsis

Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction, 2007

It was the day before Independence Day, 1831. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be "sold down the river" to the slave markets of New Orleans, young Thornton Blackburn planned a daring – and successful – daylight escape from Louisville. But they were discovered by slave catchers in Michigan and slated to return to Kentucky in chains, until the black community rallied to their cause. The Blackburn Riot of 1833 was the first racial uprising in Detroit history.

About the Author

Karolyn Smardz Frost is an archaeologist, historian, and award-winning author. She and her team at the Toronto Board of Education’s Archaeological Resource Centre uncovered the first Underground Railroad site in Canada.