Karolyn Smardz Frost Coming to Simmons on 11/1/07
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Posted by Web Team, October 05, 2007
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Karolyn Smardz Frost
I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
In this book, subtitled A Lost Tale of The Underground Railroad, the author re-creates the story of fugitive slaves Thornton and Lucie Blackburn as they leave behind their Kentucky chains and pass through parts of the Underground Railroad in search of Michigan’s unbound soil.
A masterful cross between the factual and the imaginative, the tale presents both creative assumptions and historically recorded accounts about the Blackburn’s daring escape and the twisting events that follow.
In their quest for freedom, the Blackburn’s face one ultimate plight: Instead of being captured, they must capture liberty for themselves.
Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 7:00 pm
At Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston
Co-Sponsored by the Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change
Visit: http://www.centerfornewwords.org
