Freedom’s Star

This is the story of two families who both live in the United States but want to see Canada. The year is 1816. Peter Miller is now grown with a family of his own. He is a wealthy Pennsylvania farmer who, along with his married children, moves in order to own more land. Peter and his family load an enormous Conestoga wagon and travel to Canada in style with a team of four draft horses. The Paul Bolger family are slaves on a Virginia plantation and they are fleeing from cruel oppression. Always fearful of the slave hunters, they must run by night and sleep by day. Kind friends help the Bolgers along a route where slaves find lodging as they flee. It’s because the Miller family has a slave hiding place that they get to meet the Bolger family.

A sequel to A Captain for Hans, The Brickmakers, Follow Me, and Clyde the Rebel.