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

Other author/creatorBlight, David W.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoWashington [D.C.] : Smithsonian Books in association with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, ©2004.
Descriptionxiii, 337 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Subject(s)
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 312-331) and index.
LCCN 2003044289
ISBN1588341577 (alk. paper)
ISBN1588341585 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks E450 .P27 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold