| Contents |
Formative years in the carceral systems -- From Anomabo to Fredericksburg -- The war on Africa and her diaspora -- The abolitionists -- Liberation, emancipation, and freedom -- The Liberty Line in Darke County, Ohio -- The Liberty Line in Edgewood, Indiana -- Union Literary Institute -- White grievance codes -- Fight or flight -- Ties that bind. |
| Abstract |
"Countless stories about the Liberty Lines (the Underground Railroad) have been written. Still, few ever mention the African abolitionists who established the Liberty Lines and managed the passage of thousands of self-emancipating Africans safely to freedom in the early 1800s. Thornton J. Alexander was an African abolitionist who used the power of his freedom to liberate the physical and intellectual constraints placed on African people in colonial America. His inspirational story transcends the sufferings on bondage. His lifetime of risks guaranteed the promises of liberty for anyone who reached his land. He knew 'Eliza Harris' (Uncle Tom's Cabin) because she made her escape to freedom from his property in Indiana. He allowed Bishop Paul Quinn to establish an AME church behind his family cemetery. In 1845, he donated land to construct the first private black college in the United States called Union Literary Institute (ULI). The first African American U.S. Senator, Hiram Revels, and his brother Willis, were both educated at ULI, as was Rev. John G. Mitchell, a co-founder of Wilberforce University. No longer hidden in the oppressive shadows of American abolitionists, Thornton Alexander's story of resistance, rebellion, and success has finally been reclaimed from the clutches of invisibility"--Back cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-202), glossary, and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Royster, Paula D. African abolitionist T. J. Alexander on the Ohio and Indiana Underground Railroads. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, ©2023 9781793653482 |
| Genre/form | Biographies |
| Genre/form | History |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| ISBN | 179365347X |
| ISBN | 9781793653475 |
