America First: 100 Stories from Our Own History

Leif the Lucky, the swamp march to Vincennes, the Pony Express — a hundred true adventure stories from American history, told the way children begged to hear them in 1920.

The Rescue of Jerry

3 pages in this part of America First.

The Rescue of Jerry

Not all the slaveholders in the South were kind masters, nor were all the slaves treated properly; sometimes they ran away to places in the…

The Rescue of Jerry: Reynolds

One day, an agent came to Syracuse, and obtained a warrant for the arrest of Jerry, declaring he was a former slave, owned by a Mr…

The Rescue of Jerry: Canada

The supposed old man was in reality Jerry, who was making his way into Canada. There, no person could be held as a slave, and, once there…

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