Forbidden fruit : love stories from the Underground Railroad / Betty DeRamus

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Notes: ANAC copy 39088011468899 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, S. Dillon Ripley Endowment, From his friends, 1993.
Contents: Book I, The Rebels. Love in a time of hate -- A love worth waiting for -- The special delivery package -- The man who couldn't grow a beard -- Even a blind horse knows the way -- The slave who knew his name -- Footprints in the snow -- Chased by wolves -- The woman on John Little's back -- Angeline's blues -- Book II, Crossing the color line. Suspicious lynchings -- Passing white -- Passing for black -- Mixed marriages in deadly times: a chronology -- Hound dogs hate red pepper -- The schoolteacher had to duck dead cats -- Book III, Free at last. Guns and pickles

Topic: Underground Railroad; Fugitive slaves; Couples; Love--History; African Americans; White people; Race relations