Eskridge, Ann E

When ten-year-old Little Man meets his eccentric neighbor Lucy Johnson, he discovers how her sanctuary of junk sculpture and photographs of dead people is a place where the spirits of the dead can rest in peace.

Discusses rebellion against slavery by slaves, free African-Americans, and whites in the nineteenth century, covering such topics and figures as the "Amistad, " the Fugitive Slave Act, John Brown, and Harriet Tubman, and describing the workings of the Underground Railroad.