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The Price of Freedom How One Town Stood Up to Slavery

ISBN: 9780802721679 | 0802721672
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Walker Childrens
Pub. Date: 1/8/2013

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SummaryAuthor Biography
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When John Price took a chance at freedom by crossing the frozen Ohio river from Kentucky into Ohio one January night in 1856, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was fully enforced in every state of the union. But the townspeople of Oberlin, Ohio, believed that all people deserved to be free, so Price started a new life in town-until a crew of slave-catchers arrived and apprehended him. When the residents of Oberlin heard of his cap... MORE
DENNIS & JUDITH FRADIN have published more than 150 books for children. Dennis is the author of Duel!, Let it Begin Here, and The Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence, which won numerous awards, including an ALA Notable, an ABC Choice Award, and an IRA Teacher's Choice Award.

ERIC VELASQUEZ is the author and illustrator of Grandma's Records and Grandma's Gift, a Pura Belpré Award winner. He is also the illustrator of Houdini and The Piano Man, for which he won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award. His most recent collaborations with Carole Boston Weatherford include I, Matthew Henson, which received four star reviews, and Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive, which received two starred reviews.
www.ericvelasquez.com


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