The Underground Railroad
A Reference Guide
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 2012.
Format: Book
Description: x, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Full of true stories more dramatic than any fiction, The Underground Railroad: A Reference Guide offers a fresh, revealing look at the efforts of hundreds of dedicated persons--white and black, men and women, from all walks of life--to help slave fugitives find freedom in the decades leading up to the Civil War. --from publisher description
Series: Guides to historic events in America.
Contents:
Introduction : the Underground Railroad : legend and reality -- Resisting ol' massa: modes of slave defiance -- Following the drinking gourd : fleeing servitude -- Riding the liberty line : Underground Railroad routes -- Laying the track above ground : overt defiance and rescues -- Crossing into Canaan : the Underground Railroad's Canadian terminus -- Conclusion -- The end of the line -- Biographies : personalities of the Underground Railroad -- Primary documents of the Underground Railroad.
Subjects:
Underground Railroad.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History.
Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Underground Railroad.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History.
Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN:
1598846477
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HISTORY North Am. US AF AM Slavery Wal | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.