ISBN号:9781250843227
书名:Flee North
作者:Scott Shane
出版日期:出版日期信息缺失
英文简介:
A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and named the underground railroad, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Scott Shane.
Flee North tells the story for the first time of an American hero all but lost to history.
Born into slavery, by the 1840s Thomas Smallwood was free, self-educated, and working as a shoemaker a short walk from the U.
S.
Capitol.
He recruited a young white activist, Charles Torrey, and together they began to organize mass escapes from Washington, Baltimore, and surrounding counties to freedom in the north.
They were racing against an implacable enemy: men like Hope Slatter, the region’s leading slave trader, part of a lucrative industry that would tear one million enslaved people from their families and sell them to the brutal cotton and sugar plantations of the deep south.
Men, women, and children in imminent danger of being sold south turned to Smallwood, who risked his own freedom to battle what he called “the most inhuman system that ever blackened the pages of history.
” And he documented the escapes in satirical newspaper columns, mocking the slaveholders, the slave traders and the police who worked for them.
At a time when Americans are rediscovering a tragic and cruel history and struggling anew with the legacy of white supremacy, this Flee North — the first to tell the extraordinary story of Smallwood — offers complicated heroes, genuine villains, and a powerful narrative set in cities still plagued by shocking racial inequity today.
中文简介:
普利策奖获奖作家兼记者斯科特·谢恩对非凡的废奴主义者、解放者和作家托马斯·斯莫伍德进行了引人入胜的描述，他买下了自己的自由，带领数百人摆脱了奴隶制，并为地下铁路命名。
《逃离北方》首次讲述了一位几乎消失在历史中的美国英雄的故事。
托马斯·斯莫尔伍德 (Thomas Smallwood) 出身于奴隶制，到了 1840 年代，他获得了自由，自学成才，在距美国国会大厦仅几步之遥的地方担任鞋匠。
他招募了一位年轻的白人活动家查尔斯·托里（Charles Torrey），他们一起开始组织大规模逃亡，从华盛顿、巴尔的摩和周边县逃往北部的自由。
他们正在与一个不可调和的敌人赛跑：像霍普·斯拉特这样的人，该地区主要的奴隶贩子，是一个利润丰厚的行业的一部分，该行业将使一百万奴隶与家人分离，并将他们卖给南方腹地残酷的棉花和甘蔗种植园。
面临着被卖到南方的迫在眉睫的危险的男人、女人和儿童转向斯莫尔伍德，他冒着自己的自由的危险，与他所说的“历史上最不人道的制度”作斗争。
他在讽刺报纸专栏中记录了越狱事件，嘲笑奴隶主、奴隶贩子和为他们工作的警察。
当美国人重新发现一段悲惨而残酷的历史，并重新与白人至上的遗产作斗争时，这部《逃离北方》——第一部讲述斯莫尔伍德非凡故事的电影——提供了复杂的英雄、真正的恶棍和强大的叙事背景。
在今天仍然受到令人震惊的种族不平等困扰的城市。
书籍总体字数：116348，除去名字和专有名词等之后还剩余103150计入单词总数。
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六级单词（排除四级单词后）出现1859个/次，
托福单词出现49893个/次，
SAT单词出现8540个/次，
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雅思单词出现24675个/次。
高中单词出现88763个/次。
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