Elijah is the first child born in freedom in the Buxton settlement for escaped and freed slaves in Canada. Though he has certainly heard his elders talk, he has never experienced slavery directly. Instead, he has a good life, is getting a solid education, goes fishing, and lives with his loving family in their own home.
His closest experience of slavery has been the occasional rumors of slave catchers in the area, and when newly escaped slaves arrive at the settlement. That is, until the money Mr. Leroy was saving to buy the rest of his family out of slavery is stolen. Then Elijah, feeling partly responsible, agrees to cross over to America to try to get it back.
Don't read this book...I'm warning you!
ReplyDeleteElijah of Buxton was VERY good. i don't know why Anonymous (the person before me)said not to read it. it was incredible!
ReplyDeleteI never even finished this book. I was so bored reading it. No offense to Christopher Paul Curtis. It sounded interesting on the back, but, to me it wasn't.
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