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I've Got a Home in Glory Land

A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad

I've Got a Home in Glory Land( )
Author: Frost, Karolyn Smardz
ISBN:978-0-374-53125-6
Publication Date:Jun 2008
Publisher:Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $22.00
Book Description:

It was the day before Independence Day, 1833. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be sold down the river, Thornton Blackburn planned a daring--and successful--daylight escape from their Louisville masters. Pursued to Michigan, the couple was captured and sentenced to return to Kentucky in chains. But Detroit's black community rallied to their cause in the Blackburn Riots of 1833, the first racial uprising in the city's history. Thornton and Lucie were spirited across the river to...
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