Ian Frederick Finseth, Wilbur Henry Siebert

The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom

A Comprehensive History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Interviews and excerpts from diaries, letters, biographies, memoirs, speeches, and other firsthand accounts shed much light on the origins of a system that provided aid to fugitive slaves. 46 black-and-white illustrations.

Produktdetails

• African American
• Verlag: Dover Publications Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 139mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 668g
• ISBN-13: 9780486450391
• ISBN-10: 0486450392
• Artikelnr.: 21671900

Inhaltsangabe

I. Sources of the History of the Underground Railroad II. Origin and Growth
of the Underground Road III. The Methods of the Underground Railroad IV.
Underground Agents, Station-Keepers, or Conductors V. Study of the Map of
the Underground Railroad System VI. Abduction of Slaves from the South VII.
Life of the Colored Refugees in Canada VIII. Fugitive Settlers in the
Northern States IX. Prosecutions of Underground Railroad Men X. The
Underground Railroad in Politics XI. Effect of the Underground Railroad
Illustrations, Portraits, Facsimiles and Maps