A shadow on the household, one enslaved family's incredible struggle for freedom, Bryan Prince
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A shadow on the household, one enslaved family's incredible struggle for freedom, Bryan Prince
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eng
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A shadow on the household
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Bryan Prince
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one enslaved family's incredible struggle for freedom
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John Weems, a man who purchased his own freedom, paid the owner of his enslaved wife and eight children an annual fee to keep them together at one plantation. But when that owner died and the family was scattered throughout the South, John resolved to raise the money to buy his family's freedom. A true story, played out in four countries against the backdrop of the publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", a growing abolitionist movement, and the heroic efforts of the Underground Railroad. Some descriptions of violence. 2010
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