True North: Tice's Story
Mark Leslie
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$12.95
Size: 5.5" x 8.5"
Binding: Perfect Bound
The great escape of the African slaves out of bondage in the South in the 1850s and 1860s is told through the dramatic and danger-filled story of one young man, Tice.
The God-fearing, 19-year-old Tice runs from his master’s plantation in Maysville, Kentucky, and swims the Ohio River to Ripley, Ohio, where he is connected to a network of people who rush him northeastward, ever northeastward toward New Brunswick, Canada. All along the way he is pursued by the ruthless Morgan, his master’s foreman.
Christian and Jewish families, even Henry David Thoreau, help Tice who they find likeable, friendly and even funny despite his life of misery. Near the end of Tice’s journey, one teenage ...