I'VE GOT A HOME IN GLORY LAND; A lost tale of the Underground Railroad
first edition
2007 · NY
by FROST, Karolyn Smardz
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. First printing. 8vo, pp. xxv, 450. Notes, bibliography, sources, index. Illustrated. Fine in dj. The story of the Underground Railway, and of Thornton and Lucie Blackburn, slaves who escaped to Canada. Coming from Louisville, they had been apprehended in Michigan, but Detroit's black community rose up in the Blackburn Riots of 1833 and eventually spirited them north to freedom. (Inventory #: 42020)