Trouble+Don't+Last

__Trouble Don’t Last__, by Shelley Pearsall

ISBN: 0-440-41811-9 ©2002 230 pages

p. 1: “Trouble”
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Samuel is 11 years old and working as a slave when another slave, an older man named Harrison, wakes him up in the middle of the night and makes him run away with him. Samuel doesn’t want to go, but feels he has no choice. Nothing is holding him back since his mama was sold off years ago and he has no other family. Once they are on the run, it seems as if they will never get to where there is freedom: Canada. With a little luck and some help along the way from white folks--people they have a hard time trusting--they just might make it. Trouble follows them all along though and Samuel isn’t sure his freedom is worth being frightened night and day about the prospect of being caught. YA historical fiction—slaves; Underground Railroad; running away; African-Americans
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