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Finding Freedom: the Untold Story of Joshua Glover, Runaway Slave by Ruby West Jackson and Walter T. McDonald

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Monday, February 17 through Friday, February 28, 2020. Read by Jim Fleming.

Joshua Glover was bought in St. Louis to be a “servant for life,” broken out of jail after his escape by Wisconsin abolitionists, and helped to escape to Canada and freedom.

(Wisconsin Historical Society Press; ISBN-10: 0870203827)

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