Available now In 1844, a Cape Cod sailor agreed to help seven fugitives from slavery make a run for freedom -- from Pensacola, Florida, to the Bahamas, where people of color were free. Returned to authorities by a bounty hunter, the seven fugitives were sent back to plantation life. Captain Jonathan Walker endured a year in jail and the harshest penalty of a territorial government. A United States marshal, acting in open court on orders of a Pensacola jury, branded Walker's right hand -- SS, for "slave stealer." Alvin Oickle's biography covers Walker's many years on the abolitionist lecture circuit, and then his pioneering farm life in the Old Northwest as new states joined a union free of slavery. Cover Price: US$ 18.00 E-Mail the author. Read the review on BookIdeas.com.

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