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[Best!] Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home [FreeEbook][Best!] Stolen: FiveFree Boys Kidnappedinto Slavery and TheirAstonishing OdysseyHome [Free Ebook]Descriptionâ€œâ€BOY LOST,â€ read the advertisement placed in a newspaper by the father of one ofthe five free boys kidnapped in Philadelphia in 1825. Richard Bellâ€s heartbreaking and searingaccount of their story chronicles not only the agonies and atrocities of slavery, but the fragility offreedom, and the dauntlessness of resistance.â€• -Â Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: AHistory of the United Statesâ€œOpening an unknown world from an unsung tragedy that startedin early national Philadelphia and stretched grimly South, Stolen offers a wormâ€s eye view ofthe leviathan of American slavery, and of some of its most dastardly perpetrators and its mostremarkable survivors. Richard Bell has researched inventively and mastered a vast body ofscholarship, as we would expect from so distinguished a historian. But he also imbues his tale withthe deep humanity of a great novelist. Both riveting and heartrending, Stolen joins the greatliterature of Americaâ€s founding tragedy, earning a place alongside the work of HarrietBeecher Stowe, Edward P. Jones, and Toni Morrison.â€• â€“ Jane Kamensky, JonathanTrumbull Professor of American History, Harvard Universityâ€œStolen is historical storytellingat its best. Bell makes brilliant detective work come alive with vivid, powerful writing. The saga ofthese five boys, kidnapped and smuggled from Philadelphia to Mississippi in the 1820s, capturesboth the powerful undertow of slavery in the free black communities of the North and the urgentdawning of the abolitionist movement. There's been nothing like it since Northup.â€•Â â€”AdamRothman, author of Beyond Freedom's Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slaveryâ€œRigorously researched, heartfelt, and dramatically concise, Bell's investigation illuminates therole slavery played in the systemic inequalities that still confront Black Americans.â€•Â â€”Booklistâ€œA well-told storyâ€¦ A deep dive into the extraordinary risks faced by free blacks in theantebellum era.â€• â€”Kirkus Reviewsâ€œA fascinating story.â€•â€”Library Journal Richard Bellteaches Early American history at the University of Maryland. He has received several teachingprizes and major research fellowships including the National Endowment for the Humanities PublicScholar Award. His first book, We Shall Be No More: Suicide and Self-Government in the NewlyUnited States, was published in 2012.

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