Based on a true story. Perfect for Black History Month!Peter Farrow is a slave in South Carolina. When he’s not working, Peter likes to play with the other enslaved children, or go fishing with the master’s daughter, Emily. His mother decides it’s time for Peter to learn his family’s secret: sewing patterns into quilts to warn, or give directions to, runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad.
But at almost twelve years old, the master has agreed for Peter to apprentice with Samuel, the plantation’s carpenter. John, the cruel overseer, has other plans. He wants Peter out in the fields, close enough to feel his whip and doing the backbreaking work of a grownup slave. So, when Peter comes between Samuel and the overseer’s whip, he makes a terrible enemy. He must now run away or be sold down south.
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