I Came As a Stranger: The Underground Railroad

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Honor Book for the Society of School Librarians International’s Best Book Award – Social Studies, Grades 7-12

Winner of 2005 Children’s Nautilus Book Awards (Non-fiction)

Prior to abolition in 1865, as many as 40,000 men, women, and children made the perilous go back and forth north to freedom in Canada with the assistance of the Underground Railroad. It was once neither underground nor was once it a railroad, and was once most remarkable for its loss of formal organization, so cloaked in secrecy that few facts were recorded even as it “ran.”

The story of the Underground Railroad is one among suffering and of bravery, and is not just one among escape from slavery but of beginnings: of people that carved out a new life for themselves in perilous, difficult circumstances. In I Came as a Stranger, Bryan Prince, a descendent of slaves, describes the people who made their way to Canada and the life that awaited them.

From Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Dresden, Ontario to Harriet Tubman’s Canadian base of operations in St. Catharines, the communities founded by former slaves soon produced businessmen, educators, and writers. Yet danger was once present in the type of bounty hunters and prejudice.

Complemented by archival photos, I Came as a Stranger is a very powerful addition to North American history.

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