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Jump Ship to Freedom (Arabus Family Saga)

By: James Lincoln Collier Christopher Collier
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Yearling Books
ISBN: 0440443237
ISBN-13: 9780440443230
Released: 21 Jun 1996
RRP: £3.05
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A good book for older teens. - By: , 28 May 1999
The book was very good. It would have been better if I would have been about 2 years older though. Other thatn that the book was well written & I enjoyed it anyway. I would recommend it to any one 14 or older though.
SEEDS OF THE CIVIL WAR - By: , 17 May 1998
Jump Ship to Freedom is Volume 2 of the Arabus Family History. I have not read the first volume, about his father who was paid by his owner to serve in his stead during the American Revolution. How he helped General Washington or earned the respect of many white men & a certain fame among Blacks. But this book stands on its own merit.

Fourteen-year-old Daniel Arabus & his mother are slaves in Connecticut, the property of Captain Ivers. Their secret dream is to buy their freedom with the soldiers' notes (military scrip) which Daniel's father had earned for his war service. That is, if there ever is a federal government which will honor those notes.

Daniel is obsessed with obtaining those notes for the future--his owners virtuallly stole them from his mother. So he concocts a clever plan to steal them back, but sets in motion a chain of events which threatens to take him by ship to be sold down in the West Indies' cane fields--a kind of liviing hell.

He must use his wits & his courage, plus calll his father's memory to mind in order to combat his harsh master, a string of bad luck & his own poor judgment. But he remains true to the way his brave father would want him to behave--even honoring a promise to a man on his deathbed, despite his natural desire to save his own neck. Daniel becomes the unwilling messenger for a major political issue as the delegates meet in Philadelphia to write our honored but much-maligned Constitution. A scrappy youth proves his integrity & true grit--honoring his father's memory--as he meets some famous men in post Revolutionary history. An exciting book which will captivate the reader while teaching about our American past.