Download or read book Railroad Secrets microform a Story of the Relentless Struggle Between the Might of Money and the Value of Human Lives written by Alan Hugo and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ballad of the Underground Railroad written by Charles L. Blockson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades or more, America has witnessed a healthy renewal of interest of the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad is a story of suffering, bravery, secret codes, heroic deeds, treachery and lofty ideas. It is a story about the best and the worst of human kind. Disconnected and daring escapees hoped that the North Star would guide them to stations on the burgeoning Underground Railroad; which by the early 1830's still did not have a name. The word spread from plantation to plantation, city to city, town to town; first in whispers and then out right talk, there was a railroad to freedom. Invisible though it may have been, the Underground Railroad had numerous agents, conductors and stations throughout the secret freedom network. Slave owners of course, looked upon the Underground Railroad as organized theft. Under the constitution of the United States slavery was lawful and slaves were property. Although assisting escapees along the freedom network meant breaking the law. Yet, people like Harriet Tubman, the most famous conductor did so eagerly. The Underground Railroad remained active until the end of the Civil war.
Download or read book Flight to Freedom written by Henrietta Buckmaster (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of the Underground Railroad told through the lives of courageous men and women who took part in the movement.
Download or read book Train Without Tracks written by William F. Bell and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Underground Railroad is a special moment in the history of the United States. The story of the people involved in the Underground Railroad is important to know. They offer us examples of individuals whose actions made a difference for themselves and for others. The routes people followed, the places where they were hidden, the cooperation between the people involved are all important lessons. They illustrate for us the power of the human spirit and the strength that comes from strong beliefs. In this book you will learn about the Underground Railroad Movement and the people who made it work are well worth remembering. They remind us that perseverance along with the right support can change the lives of people and the world in which they live.
Download or read book Held for Orders Being Stories of Railroad Life written by Frank H. Spearman and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Held for Orders: Being Stories of Railroad Life" by Frank H. Spearman. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book BY SECRET RAILWAY written by ENID LAMONTE MEADOWCROFT and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flight to Freedom written by Henrietta Buckmaster and published by HarperCollins Children's Books. This book was released on 1958 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of the Underground Railroad told through the lives of courageous men and women who took part in the movement.
Download or read book Stories of the Underground Railroad written by Anna L. Curtis and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad written by Eber Pettit and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Underground Railroad is one of the most taught topics to young schoolchildren, and every American is familiar with the idea of fugitive slaves escaping to Canada and the North with the help of determined abolitionists and even former escaped slaves like Harriet Tubman. The secrecy involved in the Underground Railroad made it one of the most mysterious aspects of the mid-19th century in America, to the extent that claims spread that 100,000 slaves had escaped via the Underground Railroad. Of course, from a practical standpoint, the Underground Railroad had to remain covert not only for the sake of thousands of slaves, but for a small army of men and women of every race, religion and economic class who put themselves in peril on an ongoing basis throughout the first half of the 19th century, and in the years leading up to the war. Over 150 years later, that same secrecy has helped the Underground Railroad become so romanticized and mythologized that people often visualize it in ways that were far different from reality. Before the American Civil War eliminated slavery, it was a fixture in North America for over 200 years, and by 1850 a trained slave was worth approximately $2,500, around 10 times the sum of a typical annual salary in that day. As a result, the economic dependence on slavery in the South was an extreme one, and in the wake of the Fugitive Slave Act, black people in the North were under constant pressure to defend their “credentials” to bounty hunters and owners. Between the value of slaves in America, rising abolitionist sentiment at home and overseas, and political debates promoting or hindering the movement toward equality, the era in which the Underground Railroad operated cannot be easily fit into a concise body of principles, actions or geography. Hilary Russell may have put it best in saying of the Underground Railroad that while “a powerful and centralized system may not have existed but in legend, localized networks did.” Communication standards over long distances being what they were in that century, she is most likely correct. The Underground Railroad was neither a true railroad nor underground, and it was not a route but a network comprised of a widespread conspiracy and social rebellion against present law. For the most part, people working on the Underground Railroad tried to protect themselves by not knowing the full details of the routes they were working on; instead, many people just played individual parts for the greater good.
Download or read book Glory s Freedom A Story of the Underground Railroad written by Joan Holub and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Underground Railroad written by William Still and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the long list of names who have suffered and died in the cause of freedom, not one, perhaps, could be found whose efforts to redeem a poor family of slaves were more Christlike than Seth Concklin's, whose noble and daring spirit has been so long completely shrouded in mystery. Except John Brown, it is a question, whether his rival could be found with respect to boldness, disinterestedness and willingness to be sacrificed for the deliverance of the oppressed. By chance one day he came across a copy of the Pennsylvania Freeman, containing the story of Peter Still, "the Kidnapped and the Ransomed,"-how he had been torn away from his mother, when a little boy six years old; how, for forty years and more, he had been compelled to serve under the yoke, totally destitute as to any knowledge of his parents' whereabouts; how the intense love of liberty and desire to get back to his mother had unceasingly absorbed his mind through all these years of bondage; how, amid the most appalling discouragements, prompted alone by his undying determination to be free and be reunited with those from whom he had been sold away, he contrived to buy himself; how, by extreme economy, from doing over-work, he saved up five hundred dollars, the amount of money required for his ransom, which, with his freedom, he, from necessity, placed unreservedly in the confidential keeping of a Jew, named Joseph Friedman, whom he had known for a long time and could venture to trust, -how he had further toiled to save up money to defray his expenses on an expedition in search of his mother and kindred; how, when this end was accomplished, with an earnest purpose he took his carpet-bag in his hand, and his heart throbbing for his old home and people, he turned his mind very privately towards Philadelphia, where he hoped, by having notices read in the colored churches to the effect that "forty-one or forty-two years before two little boysA were kidnapped and carried South"-that the memory of some of the older members might recall the circumstances, and in this way he would be aided in his ardent efforts to become restored to them. ________________________________________
Download or read book North Star to Freedom written by Gena Kinton Gorrell and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine escaping from the terrors of plantation slavery, only to live for years in a swamp full of biting insects and deadly snakes. Picture yourself making a dangerous journey to freedom, guided by nothing but courage and the North Star. Think of beginning a new life in a new country, only to fall prey to bounty hunters. The stories of the people who made up the Underground Railroad, that amazing network of quiet farm houses, peaceful country lanes, and busy city streets that reached from the slave-owning areas of the southern United States to the free states of the north and on to Canada, are among the most moving in our history. Meet some of the men and women who planned daring and ingenious ways to escape slavery, such as the resourceful Henry "Box" Brown, who mailed himself to Philadelphia's Anti-Slavery Society in a box, and the strong-willed Harriet Tubman, who fled with nothing more than a scrap of bread and the clothes on her back, and then returned to the south year after year to help others find their way to freedom. North Star to Freedom draws on the stories of the Underground Railroad's courageous "passengers," whose extraordinary spirit broke their own chains, and the brave "conductors," who risked their lives to help others simply because they believed that every person had the right to live free. More than just a book about the worst injustices of slavery, North Star to Freedom is ultimately about resourcefulness, compassion, and hope. Period posters, photographs, and paintings help to make North Star to Freedom a living history for readers of all ages.
Download or read book Held for Orders written by Frank Hamilton Spearman and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secret Signs Along the Underground Railroad written by Anita Riggio and published by . This book was released on 1997-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secret Signs written by Anita Riggio and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2003-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the barn used for hiding runaway slaves burns to the ground, Luke, who is deaf, finds a unique way to pass along information about the next safe haven.
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Download or read book Held for Orders written by Frank Hamilton Spearman and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
