After all, according to the law, stealing slaves is just as bad as robbing a man's house. As he makes his way from Ohio to Kentucky, Will discovers that people are not always what they seem and that it's not always easy to tell right from wrong. South Carolina During ReconstructionRobert Henley Woody, Between the Forest and. When a runaway slave asks Will to help steal his older brother out of the South to keep him from being sold into the hard life of the cotton fields, Will amends his plan and begins an adventure that will take him into the heart of slavery's evil.

A peddler is a traveling merchant who loads up his wagon and brings his goods farm to farm, Girl Scout style. But Will is ready to leave Atwater, Ohio, and start a life of his own as a peddler seeking his fortune. .In the story Stealing South by Katherine Ayres, 16 year old abolitionist William Spencer is ready to gain independence from his parents and work the Underground Railroad disguised as a peddler. But lately, I've been hauling more people than goods.' Will Spencer's family has always helped runaway slaves passing through their town as they travel the Underground Railroad. Stealing south by Katherine Ayres, December 2002, Tandem Library edition, Hardcover in English Stealing South (December 2002 edition) Open Library It looks like you're offline. circuit court of Will County, Illinois, on theft of gasoline. I come from a little town called Atwater, Ohio, and I bought this wagon to haul goods. 0 Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois.

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