A Surprising Find: “Finding Freedom”

Yesterday via Kottke, I learned that Michael Sippey built a new project: 3books, a nicely organized collection of all the books that Ezra Klein’s guests have recommended at the end of his show. Generous project, well-executed. Clicking through and adding a few titles to my to-read list, I was surprised and delighted to see a familiar cover: “Finding Freedom: The Untold Story of Joshua Glover, Freedom Seeker,” published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press and recommended by Ben Wikler last summer. I had the privilege of serving as the editor of ”Finding Freedom” back in the mid-2000s, when I had moved to Madison, where Tamara was in grad school. This was one of three books I edited in a part-time role there, and I hadn’t heard anything about it since. I can still remember working through the MS in a tiny conference room with authors Ruby West Jackson and Walter T. McDonald, who had worked together over many years researching Glover’s life and mapping underground railroad routes into and out of Wisconsin. How wonderful to learn that not only is the book still being published, but that the current edition has a foreword from UW-Madison historian Christy Clark-Pujara.