VOICES: Scott Shane

Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland

Baltimore resident Scott Shane was a reporter for 15 years at The New York Times, where he was twice a member of teams that won Pulitzer Prizes, and before that for 21 years at The Baltimore Sun. Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland is a riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and named the underground railroad. Flee North tells the story for the first time of an American hero all but lost to history. Flee North also portrays the dangerous enemies faced by Smallwood, and his allies, including Baltimore’s Hope Slatter, who ran his slave-trading business from the Inner Harbor.

The Ivy Bookshop, a longtime partner in our VOICES series, will maintain a display of books in their store for our spring 2024 series.  They will also be with us to sell books on this evening.