| International Standard Book Number |
9781668035931
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| International Standard Book Number |
1668035936
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
B
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
973.7/115092
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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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| Imprint |
©2026.
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| Imprint |
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
ix, 432 pages ; 24 cm.
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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 has journeyed to in pursuit of four men who fled his plantation years before. In a few hours, he'll be dead... and twenty-seven men from the village of Christiana, Pennsylvania, will be rounded up and put on trial. Not for murder, but for treason--for waging war against the United States--because 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 finds itself on trial: that the nation ought to live up to the ideals it was founded on and respect all people as equals. It's a story that whisks readers from the quiet farmlands of Lancaster County--where a self-emancipated man named William Parker rallies his neighbors to battle slavecatchers--to Philadelphia's genteel Society Hill, where socialite Harriet Forten Purvis charms the city's elite while hiding fugitives beneath her children's school-room. It's a stylish, propulsive, intimately human tale of bravery, ingenuity, and hope--and of ordinary people with little in common who come together to stand against injustice... and win.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Parker, William, 1822?-
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Antislavery movements United States History 19th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fugitive slaves United States History 19th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Abolitionists United States History 19th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
HISTORY / African American & Black.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Underground Railroad United States History 19th century.
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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 Religious aspects.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Pennsylvania History Civil War, 1861-1865.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Christiana (Pa.)
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Informational works.
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