Underground Railroad Book Wins Top Ontario History Award
Black History Society President To The Rescue By Stephen Weir . Stranded in Florida recovering from a knee operation, author Dr. Karolyn Smardz Frost missed an important weekend prize ceremony in Toronto for her nonfiction book Steal Away Home: One Woman’s Epic Flight to Freedom – And Her Long Road Back to the South . The book about a young woman's escape from slavery, has just won the Ontario Historical Society’s J.J. Talman Award. The Prize is given to the best book about Ontario's social, economic, political or cultural history which has been written anytime in the previous three years. This is the second award for Frost’s Underground Railroad book. Earlier this year she also received the 2017 Speaker’s Book Award from the Honourable Dave Levac, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Karolyn Smardz Frost has told the true story of escaped slave Cecelia Reynolds and her flight of courage to Toronto. It was 1846 and