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First paperback edition. |
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xiii, 337 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 27 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-331) and index. |
| Contents |
Before cotton: African and African American slavery in mainland North America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Ira Berlin -- Simple truths: antebellum slavery in black and white / Deborah Gray White -- From moral suasion to political confrontation: American abolitionists and the problem of resistance, 1831-1861 / James Brewer Stewart -- Above ground on the underground railroad: places of flight and refuge / John Michael Vlach -- Southern passage: the forgotten route to freedom in Florida / Jane Landers -- "Freemen to the rescue!": resistance to the fugitive slave law of 1850 / R.J.M. Blackett -- Kidnapping and resistance: antislavery direct action in the 1850s / Lois E. Horton -- Crusade for freedom: William Still and the real Underground Railroad / James Oliver Horton -- "Slavery is war": Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad / Catherine Clinton -- Flight and fight: the wartime destruction of slavery, 1861-1865 / Bruce Levine -- Why the Underground Railroad, and why now? A long view / David W. Blight -- Telling it like it was at Rokeby: the evolution of an Underground Railroad historic site in Vermont / Jane Williamson -- Reading freedom's memory book: recovering the story of the Underground Railroad in New York State / Milton C. Sernett -- Places and communities of the Underground Railroad: the National Park Service network to freedom / Diane Miller -- Sacred drama: "Exodus" and the Underground Railroad in African American life / Eddie S. Glaude Jr. |
| Summary |
Looks at the history of the Underground Railroad, including the hiding places, the routes, way stations, the role of American Indians, and border crossings into Mexico and the Caribbean. |
| Subject |
Underground Railroad.
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Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Slavery -- United States -- History.
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Historic sites -- United States.
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United States -- History, Local.
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Abolitionists. (OCoLC)fst00794478
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Antislavery movements. (OCoLC)fst00810800
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Fugitive slaves. (OCoLC)fst00935940
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Historic sites. (OCoLC)fst00957846
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Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
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Underground Railroad. (OCoLC)fst01160987
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Underground railroad.
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Slavery -- United States.
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Abolitionists.
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Slaves.
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Historic sites -- United States.
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United States -- Local history.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Local history. (OCoLC)fst01411631
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| Added Author |
Blight, David W.
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| ISBN |
006085118X (pbk.) |
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9780060851187 (pbk.) |
| Standard No. |
9780060851187 |
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