Book Summary: Stealing Freedom

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Summary The Novel Stealing freedom is opened up with a young slave girl named Ann who has been sent by her mother Arabella to feed the masters dogs late at night. These dogs are vicious just like their masters; the slaves feed the dogs in case they ever must run away. Ann doesn’t like the idea of running away even if it would grant her the freedom she has always dreamed, Ann is terrified whenever her uncle Abram talks of his escape attempt. Aside from her fear of running away, she is swept away with the idea of freedom and acceptance into the world in which she belongs. Their master, Charles C. Price, once was a kind and giving owner but when he hit hard times financially he turned into angry, short tempered owner. This is complicated further by the fact that his young brother Richard is Ann’s age and often plays with Ann and her brothers in the woods. His wife is no sweet woman to counteract her husband’s…show more content…
“There, this free soil is for me!” . The Reverend and Ann traveled to an inn and ate a hot meal and were given a round of applause and slaps on the back for making to freedom. The Reverend informed Ann that they would travel to her uncle Abram and Aunt Mimi in the morning. Her uncle had escaped two years prior and had been able to land in Canada, Ann couldn’t stay in the U.S. because she was a runaway not bought like her family. Ann settled into life in Canada and began attending school with a few neighbors. Her friend that she had met was trying to get her to have some feelings for her shy brother but Ann held out hope of seeing Joseph once again. The impossible happened one afternoon when Ann was down by the creek swimming with her friend when she heard her uncle talking to someone coming towards the creek, she heard a familiar voice responding and nearly jumped out of her skin when Joseph walked into the clearing and stared

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