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2018

Format:	Book
Author:	Ballard, Timothy, author.
Title:	Slave stealers : true accounts of slave rescues then and now / Timothy Ballard.
Publisher, Date:	Salt Lake City, UT : Shadow Mountain, [2018]
Description:	xviii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:	Follow two abolitionists who fought one of the most shockingly persistent evils of the world: human trafficking and sexual exploitation of slaves. Told in alternating chapters from perspectives spanning more than a century apart, read the riveting 19th century first-hand account of Harriet Jacobs and the modern-day eyewitness account of Timothy Ballard.
Subjects:	Enslaved persons -- Emancipation. Human trafficking victims. Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Slavery -- West Indies -- History -- 21st century.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:	Edenton, North Carolina, 1813 -- Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2010 -- Edenton, North Carolina, circa 1827 -- New York City, circa 2011 -- Edenton, North Carolina, 1835 -- Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2014 -- Edenton to New York, 1835-1852 -- Daring escapes via the Underground Railroad -- Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2014-present -- They call us to action -- Harriet Tubman-the "Conductor" -- Abraham Lincoln -- Little Mia -- Guesno Mardy -- Harriet Jacobs.
LCCN:	2018024938
ISBN:	9781629724843 162972484X 9781629724843
Other Number:	1043965923
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Control Number:	756576
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Call Number:	306.362 Ballard

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