| International Standard Book Number |
9781668035931
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| International Standard Book Number |
1668035936
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
973.7115092 B CoBPL 23/2026
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| Personal Name |
Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe, author.
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| Title Statement |
The ballad of the fugitive William Parker : a true tale of love, murder, treason, and ordinary folks who saved America / Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz.
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| Varying Form of Title |
True tale of love, murder, treason, and ordinary folks who saved America.
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| Edition Statement |
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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| Publisher |
??2026.
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| Publisher |
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
ix, 432 pages ; 24 cm.
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent.
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia.
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| Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [359]-416) and index.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"The year, 1851. The place, a Quaker farming community turned Underground Railroad stronghold, where a Maryland enslaver had journeyed in pursuit of four men who?´?d fled his plantation years before. In a few hours, he?´?d be dead?´Œ and twenty-seven men from the village of Christiana would be rounded up and put on trial. Not for his murder, but for treason -- for waging war against the United States, at a time when it was a crime against the government to obstruct an enslaver looking to reclaim his 'property.' This is story of what happened in Christiana that September morning -- and in the ensuing 'trial of the century,' which saw the president himself advise the prosecution on strategy and a sitting congressman serve as lead attorney for the defense. But 'The Ballad of the Fugitive William Parker' is also a much larger tale, one spanning decades, following a whole startlingly diverse community of abolitionists in their fight to convince their fellow Americans of the subversive idea that now found itself on trial: that the nation ought to live up the ideals it was founded on, and respect all men as equals"-- Publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Parker, William, 1822?-
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Abolitionists History 19th century. United States
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fugitive slaves History 19th century. United States
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Antislavery movements History 19th century. United States
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Enslaved persons Biography. History United States
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Underground Railroad History 19th century. United States
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Quaker abolitionists History 19th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Pennsylvania History Civil War, 1861-1865.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Pennsylvania History Religious aspects. Civil War, 1861-1865
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Christiana (Pa.) Biography.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies. lcgft.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Informational works. lcgft.
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