Ask the Author: Harriet Hyman Alonso
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Harriet Hyman Alonso
Hello Lilas. Thank you for your interest in "Martha." If you click on the book cover in my list of books, it will take you to "Martha's" page. Then scroll down just a little bit and you'll see the box to enter to win a free copy. Just click on it, and you're on your way.
Harriet Hyman Alonso
In 2002, my book Growing Up Abolitionist: The Story of the Garrison Children, was published. It was the result of 10 years of research and writing based on my curiosity about how antislavery activists raised their children. Were they successful in passing on their values of equality and human rights? Did the children accept their parents' values or reject them? About ten years later, I got the idea of using some of what I had learned to write a fictional story about this same topic. What evolved was Martha and the Slave Catchers, a novel written for Middle School age children about the effects of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 on two abolitionist-raised children in Connecticut, one of whom is the orphaned child of a runaway slave. You can read more about it on my blog here or on my website: http://harrietalonso.com.
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