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By David Richard Beasley

Born a slave in 1790 within the Virginia Panhandle Sarah, a gorgeous lady, marries a supposedly loose Negro, Lewis, whom she hopes will earn her freedom. Her husband is taken again to Kentucky from the place he escaped and Sarah is bought to a neighbour who mistreats her. She is compelled to flee together with her 3 youngest young children during the Ohio desert and arrives in Simcoe, top Canada in 1822. She retains condominium for a tender Scotsman, Duncan Campbell, through whom she has a son. As Simcoe grows from a village to a wealthy city below Campbell's management, Sarah and her childrens flourish as does the growing to be black neighborhood of escaped slaves. Her son-in-law, George Smith or the Black Pimpernel, who is helping her older black youngsters break out to Canada, consists of on his paintings for the Underground from Simcoe. confronted with many demanding situations, together with American invasion and the reintroduction of slavery on the time of the Canadian uprising, Sarah Lewis exhibits braveness and resourcefulness.

Sarah's trip isn't just get away to freedom yet an adventurous passage via lifestyles. Her son through Duncan Campbell, hides his heritage and turns into one of many richest males in long island urban; his premature loss of life results in the invention of his mother's story.

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