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Runaway slaves
- Title
- Runaway slaves / Karin Coddon, book editor.
- Publication
- San Diego : Greenhaven Press, c2004.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Coddon, Karin S. (Karin Susan)
- Description
- 224 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- History firsthand
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-218) and index.
- Contents
- The perils of recounting escape stories / by Frederick Douglass -- How the railroad operated / by Charles A. Garlick -- Toward a new life in Canada / by James Adams -- Eluding the slave patrols / by Francis Henderson -- An unusual escape / by Henry "Box" Brown -- A secret hiding place / by Harriet Jacobs -- A lie that leads to freedom / by Moses Roper -- A daring disguise / by William and Ellen Craft -- A failed escape / by William Wells Brown -- Boston protests the return of Anthony Burns to slavery / by Charlotte Forten -- The tragedy of Margaret Garner / by Levi Coffin -- Accused of helping runaway slaves / by William Still -- An angry crown rescues a captive fugitive slave / by Sarah H. Bradford -- A friend of the slaves / by Levi Coffin -- The Underground Railroad in the Midwest / by Laura S. Haviland -- Making the case for freedom / by Thomas Garrett -- The trial of a Quaker hero / by Harriet Beecher Stowe -- The Fugitive Slave Act / by the U.S. Congress -- The Fugitive Slave Act is just / by Daniel Webster -- A fugitive seems to recant / by the Buffalo commercial advertiser, the Buffalo morning express, and the New York daily tribune -- The abduction of a free black man / by Solomon Northup.
- Call Number
- Sc D 08-1531
- ISBN
- 0737713429 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
- 9780737713428 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
- 0737713437 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780737713435 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003061763
- OCLC
- 52901496
- Title
- Runaway slaves / Karin Coddon, book editor.
- Imprint
- San Diego : Greenhaven Press, c2004.
- Series
- History firsthand
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-218) and index.
- Added Author
- Coddon, Karin S. (Karin Susan)
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 08-1531