Trouble Don't LastEleven-year-old Samuel was born as Master Hackler’s slave, and working the Kentucky farm is the only life he’s ever known—until one dark night in 1859, that is. With no warning, cranky old Harrison, a fellow slave, pulls Samuel from his bed and, together, they run. The journey north seems much more frightening than Master Hackler ever was, and Samuel’s not sure what freedom means aside from running, hiding, and starving. But as they move from one refuge to the next on the Underground Railroad, Samuel uncovers the secret of his own past—and future. And old Harrison begins to see past a whole lifetime of hurt to the promise of a new life—and a poignant reunion— in Canada. In a heartbreaking and hopeful first novel, Shelley Pearsall tells a suspenseful, emotionally charged story of freedom and family. Trouble Don't Last includes an historical note and map. |
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... wagon, just the way Lilly told me. Her name was Hannah, and she was a tall, straight-backed woman with gingerbread skin like mine. Lilly said that she was wearing a blue-striped headwrap tied around her hair, and she was leaning over ...
... wagon, just the way Lilly told me. Her name was Hannah, and she was a tall, straight-backed woman with gingerbread skin like mine. Lilly said that she was wearing a blue-striped headwrap tied around her hair, and she was leaning over ...
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... wagon carrying me to be sold off. So the thought of going outside Master's farm had always sent a shiver through me. Even Lilly, old as she was, had never left Master's farm, and three of her children hadn't either, because they were ...
... wagon carrying me to be sold off. So the thought of going outside Master's farm had always sent a shiver through me. Even Lilly, old as she was, had never left Master's farm, and three of her children hadn't either, because they were ...
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Contents
Still as a Tree | |
Night Scare | |
Spiders and Candles | |
Carryin On | |
Ham Eggs and Miz Kettle | |
A Stringer of Fish | |
Green Murdock | |
Ace of Spades | |
Negro Hollow | |
Red Stars in a White Sky | |
Harrisons Secret | |
Two Fingers Gone | |
River of Death | |
Cornfield Bottoms | |
The River Man | |
Hetty Scott | |
A Forest of Silence | |
The Gray Yarn | |
Widow Taylor | |
Beneath Hay and Feed Sacks | |
Our Poor Colored Brethren | |
Laid to Rest | |
Snow Coming | |
Ordee Lee | |
Going North | |
Haste Will Be Your Undoing | |
Keep Your Eye on the Sun | |
Samuel and Harrisons Journey 1859 | |
Authors Note | |
Selected Bibliography | |
Acknowledgments | |
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