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Passages to freedom : the Underground Railroad in history and memory / edited by David W. Blight.

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"In this volume, editor David W. Blight brings together leading historians to explore every aspect of the network: the hiding places, the way stations, the daring routes over land and sea, the role of American Indians, and the crossing of borders into Mexico and the Caribbean. What emerges is a...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Blight, David W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : Smithsonian Books in association with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, ℗♭2004.
Subjects:
Underground Railroad.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
Abolitionists > United States > History > 19th century.
Fugitive slaves > United States > History > 19th century.
Slavery > United States > History.
Historic sites > United States.
United States > History, Local.
Abolitionists.
Antislavery movements.
Fugitive slaves.
Historic sites.
Slavery.
United States.
History.
Local history.
Table of 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.

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