Jump Ship to Freedom
By (Author) James Lincoln Collier
Contributions by Christopher Collier
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
1st December 1988
United States
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction
FIC
Winner of Kansas William White Master List 1983
Paperback
208
Width 133mm, Height 194mm, Spine 13mm
159g
Young Daniel Arabus and his mother are slaves in the house of Captain Ivers of Stratford, Connecticut. By law they should be free, since Daniel's father fought in the Revolutionary army and earned enough in soldiers' notes to buy his family's freedom.
But now Daniel's father is dead, and Mrs. Ivers has taken the notes from his mother. When Daniel bravely steals the notes back, a furious Captain Ivers forces him aboard a ship bound for the West Indies--and certain slavery. Even if Daniel can manage to jump ship in New York, will he be able to travel the long and dangerous road to freedom