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When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.
6) Freedom bird
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In the antebellum South, two siblings shelter a large, mysterious, wounded bird and eventually follow it west toward freedom.
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In Kentucky in 1838, a slave woman who will one day be named Eliza Harris, flees in the dark of night to save her toddler son from being sold away from her. She faces wild animals, freezing winter temperatures, and slave catchers on her trail, all with the goal of crossing the Ohio river to get to the North, where slavery has been outlawed.