Jump Ship to Freedom

By Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier

Subjects: Arabus family (fictitious character), fiction, African Americans, African americans, fiction, Slavery, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Slavery, Afro-Americans, Connecticut, fiction, Historical fiction, Juvenile, fast (OCoLC)fst01695393, United States, Fiction, Children's fiction, Historical, United States. Constitutional Convention (1787), United states, history, 1783-1815, fiction

Description: In 1787 a fourteen-year-old slave, anxious to buy freedom for himself and his mother, escapes from his dishonest master and tries to find help in cashing the solidier's notes received by his father for fighting in the Revolution.