Cary, Lorene

A collection of stories, based on real-life incidents, about slaves who escape to freedom by way of the Underground Railroad.

While traveling with her master, Ginnie, a slave from Virginia, daringly walks away from slavery into freedom with two of her children. She begins a new life in Philadelphia as Mercer Gray, and there she becomes a fierce abolitionist, determined to rescue the baby son she had to leave behind.

An autobiographical narrative of the author's days at St. Pauls, a private prep school in New Hampshire and of her adolescent turmoil.

An autobiographical narrative of the author's days at Saint Pauls, a private prep school in New Hampshire and of her adolescent turmoil.