TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bradford, Karleen.
TI  - A Desperate Road to Freedom: The Underground Railroad Diary of Julia May Jackson 
T2  - Dear Canada
SN  - 9780545996198
U1  - F BRA 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Markham, Ont.
PB  - Scholastic
KW  - Underground Railroad
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Fugitive slaves
KW  - Diaries
KW  - Authors, Canadian
KW  - Canadian Fiction
KW  - FICTION / African American & Black / Historical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / Historical / Canada
KW  - FICTION / Historical / Civil War Era
N1  - Virginia to Canada West, 1863-1864; Middle grade / teen
N2  - Julia May and her family have done the unthinkable. They have fled from their life of slavery on a tobacco plantation in Virginia and are making their way north, on foot, where they have heard that slaves can be free. The journey takes them through swamps, travelling by night and hiding by day. The diary that Julia May keeps is another act of bravery. Learning to read and write alongside her mistress at the plantation was her own secret and forbidden as a slave. Julia May's diary records her fears and the extraordinary things she sees during her voyage and keeps her going through the hard times until they are finally free.


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