Download or read book Underground Railroad in Delaware Maryland and West Virginia written by William J. Switala and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2004-06-18 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed maps trace the routes runaway slaves followed. Explores the impact of geography, transportation, free blacks, and members of religious congregations on the Underground Railroad. Information on modern roads and landmarks allows readers to retrace escape paths.
Download or read book The Underground Railroad in Delaware written by Marion Björnson Reed and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Underground Railroad in Delaware written by Michael J. Morgan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the stories of freedom seekers as they passed through Delaware in the decades before the Civil War. Countless men and women traveled to freedom on an informal network of back roads and friendly houses that comprised the Delaware Underground Railroad. Traveling at night and guided by the North Star, Harriet Tubman journeyed through the First State on her initial escape from enslavement, and she heroically retuned here more than ten times to lead others out of the prison of slavery. Frederick Douglass, the eloquent spokesman for abolition, traveled the Delaware Underground Railroad on his escape from bondage. Often assisted by the Quaker businessman Thomas Garrett, these freedom seekers blazed an unmatched trail of cunning and bravery. Local author Michael Morgan tells the remarkable story of this dark and neglected chapter in Delaware history.
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Download or read book Underground Railroad in Delaware written by M. L. Björnson and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Station Master on the Underground Railroad written by James A. McGowan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Garrett, a Quaker from Wilmington, Delaware, had a genial disposition unless provoked to defend his strong anti-slavery beliefs. He believed strongly in the Underground Railroad and in helping slaves escape and chafed under the Quaker belief in non-violence. When he died in 1871, Wilmington's black community saluted him as "their Moses." Station Master on the Underground Railroad was an important work in antebellum reform when it was first published in 1977. Author James McGowan disputed earlier arguments that white abolitionists were unified in their opposition to slavery and that they were largely responsible for the success of the Underground Railroad while the escaped slaves were helpless and frightened passengers who took advantage of a well-organized network. The present volume has been revised (in 2005) to include new information on Garrett's relationship with Harriet Tubman and the abolitionist newspaper editor William Lloyd Garrison. Now published in paperback, the book also gives readers a new perspective on Thomas Garrett, recognizing his shortcomings as well as the uncompromising nature of his Quaker faith.
Download or read book The Underground Railroad and Slavery in Delaware Before the Civil War written by George Edward Wootten and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Underground Railroad in Delaware The written by Michael Morgan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years before the Civil War, countless men and women traveled to freedom on an informal network of backroads and friendly houses that formed the Delaware Underground Railroad. Traveling at night and guided by the North Star, Harriet Tubman journeye
Download or read book Tubman Travels written by Jim Duffy and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-13 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring stories of the Underground Railroad come alive for our times in "Tubman Travels: 32 Underground Railroad Journeys on Delmarva." Join award-winning author Jim Duffy as he wanders the Delmarva Peninsula in search of sites and scenes that put modern-day travelers in touch with unforgettable tales from the courageous journeys of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and an array of lesser-known heroes who set out through this region in search of freedom from slavery. This second edition has been updated for the Tubman Bicentennial year with newly recognized sites, fresh insights, and the latest in archeological and historical discoveries.
Download or read book The Underground Railroad written by Colson Whitehead and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. • The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!
Download or read book Gateway to Freedom The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad written by Eric Foner and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Narrative of Some Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley written by Solomon Bayley and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reverse Underground Railroad in Southern Delaware written by Kathryn Lachmann and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Escaping Bondage written by Antonio T. Bly and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escaping Bondage: A Documentary History of Runaway Slaves in Eighteenth-Century New England, 1700–1789 is an edited collection of runaway slave advertisements that appeared in newspapers in eighteenth-century Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire. In addition to documenting the New England fugitive, it compliments similar runaway notice compilations. This compilation provides valuable insights into an important chapter in the history of slavery.
Download or read book African Americans of Wilmington s East Side written by Hara Wright-Smith, Ph.D. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilmington's East Side is the oldest residential community in the city. The first Swedish colony settled there in the 1600s, and over time, Jewish, Polish, and African American people followed. By the mid-1950s, the East Side emerged as a predominantly Black, achievement-oriented community--a place where working-class families, Black-owned businesses, and Black doctors, lawyers, teachers, musicians, and community leaders lived, worshipped, and worked together amid segregation. Among historic landmarks are Howard High School, People's Settlement Association, Walnut Street Y, St. Michael's School and Nursery, Clifford Brown Walk, Louis Redding House, and multidenominational churches. Situated in an urban setting east of downtown, the East Side is walking distance from the central business district, small retail establishments, and employers.
Download or read book The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania written by Charles L. Blockson and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Delaware on the Underground Railroad written by Kim Burdick and published by . This book was released on 200? with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
