The underground railroad and the geography of violence in antebellum America / Robert H. Churchill, University of Hartford, Connecticut.
"One summer night in 1845 thirteen slaves escaped from a plantation in northern Kentucky and ran for the Ohio River, led by Louis Talbert. They had planned to cross the Ohio on a raft, but building the craft took longer than expected, and only half of the band had made the passage before daylig...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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Norlin Library - Stacks
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E450 .C485 2020
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