Dear Canada: A Desperate Road to Freedom: The Underground Railroad Diary of Julia May Jackson, Virginia to Canada West, 1863-1864
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Julia May and her family have done the unthinkable. They have fled from their life of slavery on a tobacco plantation in Virginia, and are making their way north, on foot, where they have heard that slaves can live free. Their story, told through Julia May's journal entries, is gruelling. Their journey takes them through swamps, travelling by night and hiding by day. It is a harrowing, terrifying experience, but determination to find a new life in Canada keeps them going.
The diary that Julia May keeps is another act of bravery. Learning to read and write alongside her mistress at the plantation was her own secret, and strictly forbidden for a slave girl. Now as she records her fears and the extraordinary things she sees during her journey, she is deeply afraid that she'll be found out and suffer the consequences. But her journal keeps her going through the hard times until they are finally free. Readers will be moved as they follow her family's trek north . . . but even here old prejudices die hard.
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Karleen Bradford is the beloved, award-winning author of many novels. Though her first book was not published until she was forty, the same year she became a pilot and a scuba diver, Karleen cannot remember a time when she didn't write. In grade four her friends whispered desperately to one another, "Run! Hide! Karleen's written another play and she's going to make us act in it." Karleen grew up in Argentina, then lived all over South and Central America and Europe as the wife of a Foreign Service Officer. She now lives and writes in Owen Sound, Ontario, with her husband, Jim, and a gentle gia