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Author DeRamus, Betty.

Title Forbidden fruit : love stories from the Underground Railroad / Betty DeRamus.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Atria Books, 2006.
©2005

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  E450 .D47 2006    Available  ---
Edition Atria Books trade pbk. ed.
Description xiv, 269 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Note "Slave couples who ran away together, a white woman who escaped with her slaves and an Underground railroad that sometimes ran in reverse."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-257) and index.
Contents Book I, The Rebels. Love in a time of hate -- A love worth waiting for -- Special delivery package -- Man who couldn't grow a beard -- Even a blind horse knows the way -- Slave who knew his name -- Footprints in the snow -- Chased by wolves -- Woman on John Little's back -- Angeline's blues -- Book II, Crossing the color line. Suspicious lynchings -- Passing for white -- Passing for black -- Mixed marriages in deadly times : a chronology -- Hound dogs hate red pepper -- Schoolteacher had to duck dead cats -- Book III, Free at last. Guns and pickles.
Subject Underground Railroad -- Anecdotes.
Underground Railroad.
Genre/Form Anecdotes.
Subject Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
Fugitive slaves.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Couples -- United States -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
Couples.
Love -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Anecdotes.
Love.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject African Americans -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
African Americans -- Biography.
White people -- United States -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
White people.
United States -- Race relations -- Anecdotes.
Race relations.
Genre/Form Anecdotes.
Biographies.
Added Title Love stories from the Underground Railroad
ISBN 0743482646 paperback
Standard No. 9780743482646 51400