The Conductor: Book 1 of Rian Krieger’s Journey - Couverture souple

Smith, Roger A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1620065819 ISBN 13 : 9781620065815

Editeur : Milford House Press, 2022

Synopsis

Rule #1 of the Underground Railroad: If someone doesn’t need to know something, don’t tell them.

Philadelphia, 1835. The journey begins.

Kicked out of her third school for fighting, 11-year-old tomboy Rian Krieger gets an unanticipated education in her father’s factories. The City of Brotherly Love is a roiling stew of rivalry, prejudice, and change that pits German artisans, Irish immigrants, and the largest population of free Blacks in America against one another.

Steam engines choosh throughout the city. Workers dig ditches for new gas street lights. The fledgling railroad industry hints that change will soon come even faster.

Rian is swept into this racial and economic turmoil by three charismatic mentors. Foreman Jules Freeman, one of the few Black men in Philadelphia placed in charge of whites, introduces Rian to the Underground Railroad.

Rian’s Irish cousin Seamus strives to prove himself amidst the hostility of Otto’s German workers and launches a new fire brigade with a controversial mission. Next-door neighbor Lucretia Mott finds her voice as a stirring abolitionist.

Rian befriends Olivia Tucker, the daughter of slave owners from Charleston who summer in Philadelphia. Together, they plot to free Olivia’s mammy from enslavement. Secrets pile up. Rian finds that she must apply Rule #1 to many parts of her life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Roger A. Smith has always been fascinated by railroads, canals, the antebellum era, and social justice issues. He naturally gravitated to his first career as a high school history teacher. After ten years of inspiring young people, he yielded to passions for which he had no formal training: co-owning a summer camp, farming, founding a participatory science museum, co-owning a wilderness expedition program for teenagers, teaching entrepreneurship at the college level, woodworking, and leading a rural arts organization. As an author, he draws lore and wisdom from all those professions, and joy from the thought that he is once again making history come alive to his constituents.Rog and his wife lived and worked on a farm in Central Pennsylvania for 41 years. They currently reside in Massachusetts with their Great Dane and 2 cats. They have three adult children and two grandchildren. Learn more at RogerASmith.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Milford House Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1620065819
• ISBN 13: 9781620065815
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 334
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