LIGHT ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (CLASSIC REPRINT).
Author : WILBUR HENRY. SIEBERT
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Release : 2022
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ISBN : 9780282900496
Author : WILBUR HENRY. SIEBERT
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ISBN : 9780282900496
Author : Wilbur Henry Siebert
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Page : 22 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Fugitive slaves
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Author : Eber M. Pettit
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Page : 180 pages
File Size : 26,7 MB
Release : 2017-07-07
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ISBN : 9783744753623
Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1879. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Author : National Park Service
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780259875604
Excerpt from Underground Railroad Because few contemporary documents concerning the Underground Railroad have survived, most of the sources are autobiographical accounts written years after the events occurred. The abolitionist memoirs are based on recollections of members of a much-reviled minority writing after they had seen their cause tri umph and their years of loyal service vindicated. While they vary in authenticity, most tend to relate events from one point of view. Little or nothing was written about the ingenious and daring escape plans carried out by the fugitives themselves. The exception was The Underground Railroad written in 1872 by William Still, an African American. He published numerous docu ments, including his own interviews with fugitives who were going through Philadelphia, and focused attention on what he referred to as the self-emancipated cham pions of his race. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Wilbur H. Siebert
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 2017-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780265275931
Excerpt from The Underground Railroad From Slavery to Freedom The book is practically divided into four parts: the Rail road itself (chapters ii, v); the railroad hands (chapters iii, iv, vi); the freight (chapters vii, viii); and political relations and effects (chapters ix, x, xi). Perhaps one of the most interesting contributions to our knowledge of the subject is the account of the beginnings of the system of secret and systematic aid to fugitives. Lite evidence goes to show that there was organization in Pennsylvania before 1800 and in Ohio soon after 1815. The book thus becomes a much-needed guide to information about the obscure anti-slavery movement which preceded William Lloyd Gar rison, and to some degree prepared the way for him; and it will prove a source for the historian of the influence of the West in national development. As yet we know too little of the anti-slavery movement which so profoundly stirred the W'estern states, including Kentucky and Missouri, and which came closely into contact With the actual conditions of slavery. As Professor Siebert points out, most of the early abolitionists in the West were former slaveholders or sons of slaveholders. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Barbara Brooks Simons
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 26,85 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 145090744X
Find out about the secret language of the Underground Railroad and the routes that helped slaves escape to freedom.
Author : William Still
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1528793013
William Still (1821–1902) was an African-American abolitionist, businessman, writer, historian, civil rights activist. He was also a conductor on the Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses created in the United States during the early to the mid-19th century for use by African American slaves in order to escape into free states or Canada. In 1872, he published “The Underground Railroad”, an account of the underground system and the experiences of 649 slaves who escaped to freedom. An incredible collection of real-life stories that provide a unique insight into the adversity faced by pre-emancipation African-Americans. Contents include: “Seth Concklin”, “Underground Rail Road Letters”, “William Peel, alias William Box Peel Jones”, “Wesley Harris, alias Robert Jackson, and the Matterson Brothers”, “Death of Romulus Hall—New Name George Weems”, “James Mercer, Wm. H. Gilliam, and John Clayton”, “Clarissa Davis”, “Anthony Blow, alias Henry Levison”, “Perry Johnson, of Elkton, Maryland”, “Isaac Forman, William Davis, and Willis Redick”, etc. Read & Co. History is proudly republishing this classic book in a brand new edition complete with an introductory biography by William Wells Brown.
Author : Jeanine Michna-Bales
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,25 MB
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1616896094
They left in the middle of the night—often carrying little more than the knowledge to follow the North Star. Between 1830 and the end of the Civil War in 1865, an estimated one hundred thousand slaves became passengers on the Underground Railroad, a journey of untold hardship, in search of freedom. In Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad, Jeanine Michna-Bales presents a remarkable series of images following a route from the cotton plantations of central Louisiana, through the cypress swamps of Mississippi and the plains of Indiana, north to the Canadian border— a path of nearly fourteen hundred miles. The culmination of a ten-year research quest, Through Darkness to Light imagines a journey along the Underground Railroad as it might have appeared to any freedom seeker. Framing the powerful visual narrative is an introduction by Michna-Bales; a foreword by noted politician, pastor, and civil rights activist Andrew J. Young; and essays by Fergus M. Bordewich, Robert F. Darden, and Eric R. Jackson.
Author : Raymond Bial
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,62 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0395979153
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Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 24,64 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1438106548
Describes the system by which black slaves escaped captivity in the southern United States.