Book Description

In Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, when Huck and Jim arrive at the Phelps plantation, Jim discovers to his unspeakable amazement that Miss Watson has granted him his freedom. At this point, author Ferrel Glade Roundy steps in to tell the continuing stories of these two legendary characters: Huck in Huck Finn Goes West and Jim in Up From The Ashes. Before Huck 'lights out for the territory,' he remains with Jim until they contact the fledgling Underground Railroad, which organization is instrumental in helping Jim to realize his fondest dream: to locate and retrieve his wife Ruby and their children from the satanic clutches of slavery. Up From The Ashes, brimming with intrigue and excitement on virtually every page, is the phenomenal and heartwarming story of this remarkable family's odyssey from the forbidding depths of slavery to the upland vistas of Freedom and eventual triumph. . . .