![]() ![]() It resulted in their arrests for breaking the laws relating to runaway slaves, and caused great disruption in the family’s harmony. ![]() In time their activities aroused the suspicions of local pro-Slavery advocates. ![]() They harboured many fleeing blacks, including the brave but needy Joanna, escapee from a brutal Virginia plantation owner. Hans and Gerda were committed Abolitionists, but Hans’s wife Anneke had less conviction. an underground network that helped to smuggle runaway black slaves from Southern states through to freedom in Canada. It also reveals, gradually, their participation in the Underground Railway, i.e. It sets out the story of how the Bergstroms arrived at Elm Creek Farm and established themselves. She finds three very old quilts, stitched by unnamed ancestors, and a book of memoirs, written by her great grandfather’s sister Gerda. The ageing Sylvia Bergstrom Compson is prompted by a stranger’s request to look into items that have been stored in the attics at historic Elm Creek Manor for decades. ![]()
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