Böcker av Sydney Nathans

"To Free a Family" tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North and spent the next seventeen years trying to recover her son and daughter. Her freedom, like that of thousands who escaped from bondage, came at a great price remorse at parting without a word, fear for her family s fate."

Webster's dilemma was the crisis of an entire political generation reared for a traditional world and forced to function in a modern one.

Sydney Nathans offers a counterpoint to the narrative of the Great Migration, a central theme of black liberation in the twentieth century. He tells the story of enslaved families who became the emancipated owners of land they had worked in bondage.