Breaking the Chains by William Loren Katz & Robin D. G. Kelley

Author:William Loren Katz & Robin D. G. Kelley [William Loren Katz & >Robin D. G. Kelley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: biographies for teens; biography; american history; us history; nonfiction for teens; young adult books; young adult nonfiction books; african american books; illustrations; school library; high school history; middle school history; teacher resources; american civil war; slave rebellion; emancipation; Black voices; human rights; civil rights; african american; black history; united states history; social justice; activism; young adult nonfiction; nonfiction books for teens; books for 12 year old girls
ISBN: 9781644212660
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2023-11-21T18:00:00+00:00

Escape disguises and techniques ranged from clever to ingenious. Black people pretended to be free or white, men became women, and women men. Some, dressed as sailors, took jobs on ships. People running to freedom threw off the scent of bloodhounds with pepper, dead fish, or by rubbing graveyard bones on their clothes. Some pretended to ask whites for directions, then headed along another road. Others escaped on rafts built from fence posts and across bridges built from sleds.

From Tennessee, Mr. and Mrs. John Little walked to Chicago. Mrs. Little, who was seventeen at the time, later remembered: “My shoes gave out before many days—then I wore my husband’s old shoes till they were used up. Then we came barefoot all the way to Chicago. My feet were so blistered and sore and my ankles swollen, but I had to keep on. There was something driving me.”

People escaping from enslavement sometimes built a new life for themselves in nearby woods or a far-off wilderness. A woman named Tamar lived in a forest and sometimes secretly hid under the floor of her enslaved mother’s hut. “Her husband would sometimes spend part of the night with her and get back before sunrise. . . . We all supplied her,” recalled a relative. Tamar had three children while living the life of an outlaw. Cornelia Carney recalled her father, who was beaten every time he ran away, decided to live in the woods with a cousin and another man. Saturday night or Sunday after whites left for church, he would return to his family.

Henry Brown is rescued from his box in Philadelphia.

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