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Passages to freedom : the Underground Railroad in history and memory

Title
  1. Passages to freedom : the Underground Railroad in history and memory / edited by David W. Blight.
Published by
  1. Washington [D.C.] : Smithsonian Books in association with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 2006, c2004.

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Additional authors
  1. Blight, David W.
Description
  1. xiii, 337 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.); 27 cm.
Subject
  1. Underground Railroad
  2. United States > History, Local
  3. Fugitive slaves > United States > History > 19th century
  4. Slavery > United States > History
  5. Historic sites > United States
  6. Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century
  7. Abolitionists > United States > History > 19th century
Contents
  1. 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.
Call number
  1. E450
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-331) and index.
Title
  1. Passages to freedom : the Underground Railroad in history and memory / edited by David W. Blight.
Imprint
  1. Washington [D.C.] : Smithsonian Books in association with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 2006, c2004.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-331) and index.
Added author
  1. Blight, David W.
ISBN
  1. 006085118X (pbk.)
Research call number
  1. *R-RMRR E450 .P27 2006
  2. Sc F 04-918
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