Jean Rae Baxter book launch

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 7:00pm

Bryan Prince Bookseller
1060 King Street West
Hamilton, ON
L8S 1L7

Jean Rae Baxter is launching Freedom Bound (Ronsdale Press), the last in her young adult trilogy, at Hamilton's Bryan Prince Bookseller.

Freedom Bound is the final installment of Jean’s best-selling young adult trilogy and is the story of eighteen-year-old Charlotte who sails from Canada to Charleston in the beleaguered Thirteen Colonies to join her new husband Nick. During these final months of the American Revolution, Charlotte must muster all her wit and courage when she has to rescue Nick from being tortured as a spy in an alligator infested Carolina swamp. She must also find ways to bring freedom to a pair of teenage runaway slaves she has befriended. Freedom Bound delivers a frank and realistic picture of the slave system and a powerful account of what was at stake for both white and black Loyalists as they prepared to find a new home in the country that was soon to be Canada. Like The Way Lies North and Broken Trail which preceded it, Freedom Bound contains a wealth of carefully researched historical details of one of the least known chapters of our history.

Jean was born in Toronto and grew up in Hamilton, but “down home” was the region of Essex and Kent Counties on the north shore of Lake Erie where her ancestors had settled, some following the American Revolution and some a century earlier, in the days of New France. Jean has drawn much inspiration from family stories of the early settlers interwoven with those of First Nations people. Jean has degrees from both the University of Toronto and Queen’s University in Kingston where she subsequently had a career in education before returning to Hamilton to become a fulltime writer.

Free admission. RSVP, as space is limited.

For further information, please contact:
Bryan Prince Bookseller 905-528-4508 or events@princebooks.net