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Passages to freedom : the Underground Railroad in history and memory
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- Creator
- edited by David W. Blight
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Washington [D.C.] : Smithsonian Books in association with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 2006
- ©2004
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 337 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780060851187, 006085118X
- OCLC
- ocm63205701
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-331) and index.
- 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 confrontationn : 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
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.