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One More River to Cross – By Bryan Prince

By Bryan Prince

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In the early to mid-nineteenth century, Isaac Brown, a slave, was accused of the attempted murder of a prominent plantation owner, despite there being no evidence of his guilt. Brown, after enduring two brutal floggings, was shipped to a New Orleans slave pen. From there the resourceful Brown was able to make a daring escape to Philadelphia in the free state of Pennsylvania. His biggest error was writing a note informing his free wife and eleven children in Maryland of his whereabouts. The note was intercepted and led to his arrest and attempted extradition back to Maryland.

While engaged in researching an ancestor named Isaac Brown, Bryan Prince encountered the very high-profile case of what turned out to be a different Isaac Brown. The story of this slave, with its culmination in Brown's dramatic escape and ultimate success in crossing the border into Canada, is the riveting subject of historian Bryan Prince's latest book.

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One More River to Cross

Everything Bryan Prince writes is well researched, dramatic, and engaging. He draws us into the narrative and makes us feel for the character and allows us to empathize with the characters and in doing so we understand their emotions, feelings and motivations. We assume their plights and live and die with their achievements and failures. We become them and we inhabit their personas. We can identify with them, we get to care for them and share their grief as well as their joy and the fact that there is a strong local connection to it, which makes it all the more fascinating.

The Chatham Daily News
February 17, 2012

Informative for both its historical content and Princes storytelling style, One More River to Cross is worth the read.

Biz X Magazine (Windsor, ON)
March 1, 2012

Another inspirational saga from Prince.

OHS Bulletin
February 1, 2012

"Once again, Bryan Prince hits the mark. In One More River to Cross, Prince gives us one more great story of an unsung hero. He is the consummate historian, continually uncovering exciting adventures of international connections of people of African descent.

"His thirty-year unquenchable thirst for answers to his ancestors is amazing. The number of sources Prince used, the number of experts he consulted, the geography he covered sleuthing out the story, and the years spent researching Isaac Brown is astounding.

"Whereas historians and genealogists are always looking for sources, following Prince's journey through archives in Canada and the U.S. reveal the voluminous sources that are available after continuously hitting brick walls and dead ends. With all the original sources that have not been digitized, Bryan’s journey continually reminds me of the fallacy of the 'end of the paper trail.'"

Tony Burroughs

"Once again, Bryan Prince, intrepid historian and masterful storyteller, brings to vibrant life the long-forgotten story of Isaac Brown, a hunted fugitive slave and family man whose battle for freedom brought international attention to the injustices of an unbridled slave power. The husband of a free woman and the father of their eleven children, Brown’s sudden arrest for the attempted murder of his master - a crime he did not commit - his sale to New Orleans, his escape and later capture in Philadelphia, drew the ire of Pennsylvania's anti-slavery vanguard.

"Marshalling the support of some of the most powerful abolitionists and brilliant legal minds in the United States at the time, Brown was cunningly liberated and secretly whisked to freedom in Canada. Constantly vigilant against the possibility that the long reach of his master and the pro-slavery governor of Maryland, determined to seek his re-enslavement, would find him, Brown changed his name to Russell and struggled to support his family. Drifting into obscurity in his later years, the legacy of Brown and his family's pursuit of liberty and self-determination in the face of extreme opposition is an inspiration and a reminder of the struggles of those who came before us, and whose memory we should never forget."

Kate Clifford Larson, Ph.D

"This heart-rending story of Isaac Brown’s separation from family through the horrors and tribulations of slavery and his reunion with his wife, Susannah, follows their odyssey on the Underground Railroad. Bryan Prince takes us through a personal discovery of the struggle for freedom and dignity of his own ancestors and their eventual settlement in Buxton."

Paul Lovejoy