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The Underground Railroad

By Kerry Walters

Book information

Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Year
2012
ISBN
9781598846485, 9781598846478, 2011041517
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
7 MB (6967327 bytes)
Series
Guides to Historic Events in America
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-29 05:41:01
HIS036020HistoryNonfictionSociology

Description

The Underground Railroad provides the richest portrayal yet of the first large scale act of interracial collaboration in the United States, mapping out the complex network of routes and safe stations that made escape from slavery in the American South possible. Kerry Walters' stirring account ranges from the earliest acts of slave resistance and the rise of the Abolitionist movement, to the establishment of clandestine "liberty lines" through the eastern and then-western regions of the Union and ultimately to Canada. Separating fact from legend, Walters draws extensively on first-person accounts of those who made the Railroad work, those who tried to stop it, and those who made the treacherous journey to freedom—including Eliza Harris and Josiah Henson, the real-life "Eliza" and "Uncle Tom" from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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