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Passages to freedom : the Underground Railroad in history and memory
- Title
- Passages to freedom : the Underground Railroad in history and memory / edited by David W. Blight.
- Publication
- Washington [D.C.] : Smithsonian Books in association with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 2006, c2004.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc F 04-918 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | No restrictions | *R-RMRR E450 .P27 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference |
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- Additional Authors
- Blight, David W.
- Description
- xiii, 337 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.); 27 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-331) and index.
- Contents
- 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
- E450
- ISBN
- 006085118X (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 63205701
- Title
- Passages to freedom : the Underground Railroad in history and memory / edited by David W. Blight.
- Imprint
- Washington [D.C.] : Smithsonian Books in association with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 2006, c2004.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-331) and index.
- Added Author
- Blight, David W.
- Research Call Number
- *R-RMRR E450 .P27 2006Sc F 04-918