Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Underground Railroad
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Underground Railroad
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Underground Railroad
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Act of 1998
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subways
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Confederate Currency
Author: John W. JonesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780972282321
Category : Money
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Confederate Currency Exhibition Catalogue is the companion book to the nationally acclaimed traveling exhibition by John W. Jones. The exhibition pairs images of enslaved Africans engraved on Confederate money with paintings inspired by the engravings.The popular exhibition has broken museum attendance records and has been critiqued and described in articles in 456 publications, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Time magazine. CNN, PBS and NPR.In the book, slaves are shown clearing farmlands, planting cotton, hoeing fields, picking cotton, baling cotton, carrying cotton, bringing cotton bales to the market, steamboats and trains. There are bank notes showing slaves cooking for their white masters in SC, picking sugar cane in Tennessee and Alabama, harvesting turpentine in Georgia, carrying tobacco in Texas, feeding a horse in Virginia, harvesting corn in Missouri, working in a factory in NC, and even working on a wheat farm for George Washington.This book is the first documentation of slavery on Confederate and Southern money in one collection, and is sure to become an indispensable reference work for paper money collectors. The introduction, five scholarly essays and time-line will interest historians, museum professional, students and general readers. It includes a free CD-ROM with images of hundreds of additional currencies that show depictions of slavery.
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Underground Railroad
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Laws Relating to the National Park Service
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Author: Eric FonerPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393244385
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom. A deeply entrenched institution, slavery lived on legally and commercially even in the northern states that had abolished it after the American Revolution. Slaves could be found in the streets of New York well after abolition, traveling with owners doing business with the city's major banks, merchants, and manufacturers. New York was also home to the North’s largest free black community, making it a magnet for fugitive slaves seeking refuge. Slave catchers and gangs of kidnappers roamed the city, seizing free blacks, often children, and sending them south to slavery. To protect fugitives and fight kidnappings, the city's free blacks worked with white abolitionists to organize the New York Vigilance Committee in 1835. In the 1840s vigilance committees proliferated throughout the North and began collaborating to dispatch fugitive slaves from the upper South, Washington, and Baltimore, through Philadelphia and New York, to Albany, Syracuse, and Canada. These networks of antislavery resistance, centered on New York City, became known as the underground railroad. Forced to operate in secrecy by hostile laws, courts, and politicians, the city’s underground-railroad agents helped more than 3,000 fugitive slaves reach freedom between 1830 and 1860. Until now, their stories have remained largely unknown, their significance little understood. Building on fresh evidence—including a detailed record of slave escapes secretly kept by Sydney Howard Gay, one of the key organizers in New York—Foner elevates the underground railroad from folklore to sweeping history. The story is inspiring—full of memorable characters making their first appearance on the historical stage—and significant—the controversy over fugitive slaves inflamed the sectional crisis of the 1850s. It eventually took a civil war to destroy American slavery, but here at last is the story of the courageous effort to fight slavery by "practical abolition," person by person, family by family.
Calendars of the United States House of Representatives and History of Legislation
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
United States Statutes at Large
Author: United StatesReport on Legislative and Oversight Activities of the Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives During the ... Congress
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description