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A fluid frontier : slavery, resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River borderland
- Title
- A fluid frontier : slavery, resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River borderland / edited by Karolyn Smardz Frost and Veta Smith Tucker ; with a foreword by David W. Blight.
- Publication
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2016]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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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 16-40 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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- Description
- xvi, 286 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits; 26 cm
- Series Statement
- Great Lakes books
- Uniform Title
- Great Lakes books.
- Alternative Title
- Slavery, resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River borderland
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-272) and index.
- Contents
- Uncertain freedom in frontier Detroit / Veta Smith Tucker -- Forging transnational networks for freedom / Karolyn Smarz Frost -- The illusion of safety: attempts to extradite fugitive slaves from Canada / Bryan Prince -- Canadian black settlements in the Detroit River region / Irene Moore Davis -- Worship way stations in Detroit / Barbara Hughes Smith -- Extending the right hand of fellowship: Sandwich Baptist Church, Amherstburg First Baptist, and the Amherstburg Baptist Association / Adrienne Shadd -- The Voice of the Fugitive: a transnational abolitionist organ / Afua Cooper -- A community militant and organized: the Colored Vigilant Committee of Detroit / Roy Finkenbine -- I am going straight to Canada: women underground railroad activists in the Detroit River border zone / Margaret Washington -- Bridging rivers: Caroline Quarlls's remarkable journey / Kimberly Simmons and Larry McClellan -- One more river to cross: the Crosswhites' escapes from slavery / Debian Marty -- The McCoys: charting freedom from both sides of the river / Carol E. Mull -- The useful frontier: John Brown's Detroit River preface to the Harper's Ferry raid / Louis A. Decaro, Jr.
- Call Number
- Sc F 16-40
- ISBN
- 9780814339596
- 081433959X
- 9780814339602 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015946924
- OCLC
- 939922253
- Title
- A fluid frontier : slavery, resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River borderland / edited by Karolyn Smardz Frost and Veta Smith Tucker ; with a foreword by David W. Blight.
- Publisher
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Great Lakes booksGreat Lakes books.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-272) and index.
- Added Author
- Smardz Frost, Karolyn.Tucker, Veta Smith.Blight, David W.
- Research Call Number
- Sc F 16-40