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Karolyn Smardz Frost, I've Got a Home in Gloryland: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad. (Thomas Allen Publishers)
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KAROLYN SMARDZ FROST is a Toronto-born archaeologist and historian whose 1985 excavation of the Thornton and Lucie Blackburn site made history. I've Got a Home in Glory Land is the fruit of more than twenty years of historical detective work into this fugitive slave couple’s dramatic escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad. Smardz Frost divides her time between her Collingwood, Ontario, home and an oceanfront cottage on Nova Scotia’s South Shore.
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Saturday, March 31, 2007
Lord Nelson Hotel
730PM
with Noah Richler, Dennis Bock, and Bruce MacDonald
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------------------------------------------------ This epic story is the first original biography of a slave couple since the Civil War.
I’ve Got a Home in Gloryland is the fascinating and absorbing story of Thornton and Lucie Blackburn, two fugitive slaves from Kentucky who made a daring daylight escape from slavery in
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1831. Smardz Frost has written an epic account of this couple’s extraordinary life and their struggle for freedom – the choices they made, the dangers they faced, and the courage they had to forge ahead and create new lives for themselves. It is both a devastating portrait of the conditions – and the politics – of slavery and an inspiring account of two intrepid fugitive slaves whose flight to freedom changed US and Canadian history.
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