love stories from the underground railroad : slave couples who ran away together, a white woman who escaped with her slaves and an undergropund railroad that sometimes ran in reverse
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- DeRamus, Betty
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- WER 1D 2005
- Thesaurus
- slavernij, emancipatie, huwelijken, liefde, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Forbidden Fruit is a collection of largely untold stories of ordinary men and women who took extraordinary measures, risking life and limb to be together. It1s the story of couples who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to defy the system that allowed slave masters to breed and sell people like cattle. Some broke the taboo against interracial marriage, putting their lives in the most severe peril.