Two books trace enslaved people's journey to freedom in the 19th century
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In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas
Kai Thomas found a name on a census record for one of John Daddy Hall's daughters, Lissinda. There were no details about her and that set his imagination running. The character named Lissinda and another woman spend most of the book's swapping stories. They are in a place we don't often hear about in histories of the Underground Railroad,. A Canadian community of free black people.
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