The Reverse Underground Railroad: A Review of Stolen by Richard Bell

Richard Bell Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2019).

Richard Bell’s new book is a beautifully crafted narrative tracing the story of five young boys - free African Americans from Philadelphia - who were kidnapped and sold into slavery in the 1820s. Bell follows their harrowing experiences in the slave South and their improbable and, as Bell describes, astonishing return to freedom.

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