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To Free a Family

The Journey of Mary Walker

Sydney Nathans

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$30.00 • £26.95 • €27.95

ISBN 9780674725942

Publication Date: 11/18/2013

360 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

25 halftones, 4 maps in mock insert

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Sydney Nathans is Professor Emeritus of History, Duke University.

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Listen to Sydney Nathans discuss Walker’s story on WUNC Chapel Hill’s The State of Things
Listen to a story from Boston’s WBUR about Mary Walker’s legacy to the city of Cambridge: the historic Blacksmith House (and a follow-up story about her descendants’ new knowledge of their family history)—or read about that discovery in the Harvard Crimson
Read a Denver Post interview with Professor Nathans
Read an excerpt from To Free a Family at Ms. Magazine
Read more about the book and the Walker family’s place in North Carolina history in the Charlotte Observer and the Durham Herald Sun
Listen to Nathans discuss To Free a Family on the HUP Podcast
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2013 Darlene Clark Hine Award, Organization of American Historians

2013 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

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