6/3/2023 0 Comments Cousins by Virginia Hamilton![]() The aging homes where the escaped slaves hid became catacombed with secret passages and hiding spaces. ![]() He had also had plenty of company in this resolve: Fully 50,000 slaves passed through Ohio or settled there during antebellum times, aided on the Underground Railroad by Shawnee Indians and white abolitionists. ![]() Hamilton’s maternal grandfather, Levi Perry, had escaped from slavery as a child in Virginia by crossing the Ohio River to freedom. Likely the biggest influence on Virginia Hamilton - whom Entertainment Weekly has called “a majestic presence in children’s literature” - was the fact that her own parents were storytellers. All these things would come into play in the children’s stories Hamilton would spin as an adult. Growing up on a small farm near Yellow Springs, Ohio, in the 1940s, Virginia Hamilton was lovingly embraced by the sights, sounds and smells of rural America, and by a big extended family of cousins, uncles, and aunts. ![]()
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