Author: J. Blaine Hudson
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476604223
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Between 1783 and 1860, more than 100,000 enslaved African Americans escaped across the border between slave and free territory in search of freedom. Most of these escapes were unaided, but as the American anti-slavery movement became more militant after 1830, assisted escapes became more common. Help came from the Underground Railroad, which still stands as one of the most powerful and sustained multiracial human rights movements in world history. This work examines and interprets the available historical evidence about fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad in Kentucky, the southernmost sections of the free states bordering Kentucky along the Ohio River, and, to a lesser extent, the slave states to the immediate south. Kentucky was central to the Underground Railroad because its northern boundary, the Ohio River, represented a three hundred mile boundary between slavery and nominal freedom. The book examines the landscape of Kentucky and the surrounding states; fugitive slaves before 1850, in the 1850s and during the Civil War; and their motivations and escape strategies and the risks involved with escape. The reasons why people broke law and social convention to befriend fugitive slaves, common escape routes, crossing points through Kentucky from Tennessee and points south, and specific individuals who provided assistance--all are topics covered.
Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky Borderland
Author: J. Blaine Hudson
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786446854
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Between 1783 and 1860, more than 100,000 enslaved African Americans escaped across the border between slave and free territory in search of freedom. Most of these escapes were unaided, but as the American anti-slavery movement became more militant after 1830, assisted escapes became more common. Help came from the Underground Railroad, which still stands as one of the most powerful and sustained multiracial human rights movements in world history. This work examines and interprets the available historical evidence about fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad in Kentucky, the southernmost sections of the free states bordering Kentucky along the Ohio River, and, to a lesser extent, the slave states to the immediate south. Kentucky was central to the Underground Railroad because its northern boundary, the Ohio River, represented a three hundred mile boundary between slavery and nominal freedom. The book examines the landscape of Kentucky and the surrounding states; fugitive slaves before 1850, in the 1850s and during the Civil War; and their motivations and escape strategies and the risks involved with escape. The reasons why people broke law and social convention to befriend fugitive slaves, common escape routes, crossing points through Kentucky from Tennessee and points south, and specific individuals who provided assistance--all are topics covered.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786446854
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Between 1783 and 1860, more than 100,000 enslaved African Americans escaped across the border between slave and free territory in search of freedom. Most of these escapes were unaided, but as the American anti-slavery movement became more militant after 1830, assisted escapes became more common. Help came from the Underground Railroad, which still stands as one of the most powerful and sustained multiracial human rights movements in world history. This work examines and interprets the available historical evidence about fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad in Kentucky, the southernmost sections of the free states bordering Kentucky along the Ohio River, and, to a lesser extent, the slave states to the immediate south. Kentucky was central to the Underground Railroad because its northern boundary, the Ohio River, represented a three hundred mile boundary between slavery and nominal freedom. The book examines the landscape of Kentucky and the surrounding states; fugitive slaves before 1850, in the 1850s and during the Civil War; and their motivations and escape strategies and the risks involved with escape. The reasons why people broke law and social convention to befriend fugitive slaves, common escape routes, crossing points through Kentucky from Tennessee and points south, and specific individuals who provided assistance--all are topics covered.
The Underground Railroad
Author: Ann Malaspina
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
ISBN: 9781604136944
Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book describes the Underground Railroad (1820-1865), the secret and loosely organized network of people and safe houses that led slaves to freedom.
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
ISBN: 9781604136944
Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book describes the Underground Railroad (1820-1865), the secret and loosely organized network of people and safe houses that led slaves to freedom.
The Underground Railroad
Author: Michael Burgan
Publisher: New York : Chelsea House
ISBN: 9780816061372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Describes the system by which black slaves escaped captivity in the southern United States.
Publisher: New York : Chelsea House
ISBN: 9780816061372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Describes the system by which black slaves escaped captivity in the southern United States.
The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom as Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author
Author: William Still
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465545514
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2038
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465545514
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2038
Book Description
The Underground Railroad
Author: William Still
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048613122X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
From a "conductor" who assisted runaway slaves in their flight to freedom, here is a collection of letters, newspaper articles, and firsthand accounts about refugees' narrow escapes and deadly struggles. Over 50 illustrations.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048613122X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
From a "conductor" who assisted runaway slaves in their flight to freedom, here is a collection of letters, newspaper articles, and firsthand accounts about refugees' narrow escapes and deadly struggles. Over 50 illustrations.
The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom
Author: Wilbur Henry Siebert
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Company
ISBN:
Category : Fugitive slaves
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Company
ISBN:
Category : Fugitive slaves
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Escape to Freedom
Author: Barbara Brooks Simon
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417755141
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An account of two slaves who escaped from their masters in Kentucky and, aided by the people of the Underground Railroad, made their way to freedom in Canada
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417755141
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An account of two slaves who escaped from their masters in Kentucky and, aided by the people of the Underground Railroad, made their way to freedom in Canada
The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom
Author: William M. Mitchell
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375108923
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375108923
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
The Underground Railroad
Author: William Still
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1433
Book Description
"The Underground Railroad" chronicles the stories and methods of some 649 slaves who escaped to freedom via the Underground Railroad. Author, William Still included his carefully compiled and detailed documentation about those that he had helped escape into the pages of The Underground Railroad Records. William Still (1821-1902) was an African-American abolitionist in Philadelphia, conductor on the Underground Railroad, businessman, writer, historian and civil rights activist.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1433
Book Description
"The Underground Railroad" chronicles the stories and methods of some 649 slaves who escaped to freedom via the Underground Railroad. Author, William Still included his carefully compiled and detailed documentation about those that he had helped escape into the pages of The Underground Railroad Records. William Still (1821-1902) was an African-American abolitionist in Philadelphia, conductor on the Underground Railroad, businessman, writer, historian and civil rights activist.
Fleeing for Freedom
Author: George Hendrick
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN: 9781566635455
Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Here are firsthand descriptions of the experiences of escaped slaves making their way to freedom in the North and in Canada in the years before the Civil War.
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN: 9781566635455
Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Here are firsthand descriptions of the experiences of escaped slaves making their way to freedom in the North and in Canada in the years before the Civil War.