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Freedom roads : searching for the Underground Railroad
- Title
- Freedom roads : searching for the Underground Railroad / Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan.
- Author
- Hansen, Joyce
- Publication
- Chicago, Ill. : Cricket Books, 2003.
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- Description
- xi, 164 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- Shows how archaeologists and historians sift through root cellars, study songs and quilts, and use the latest technology to reconstruct the Underground Railroad, offering a look at the escape routes used by American slaves.
- Subject
- Underground Railroad > Juvenile literature
- Fugitive slaves > United States > History > Juvenile literature
- Fugitive slaves > United States > History > Sources > Juvenile literature
- African Americans > History > Sources > Juvenile literature
- African Americans > Antiquities > Juvenile literature
- Antislavery movements > United States > History > Juvenile literature
- Antislavery movements > United States > History > Sources > Juvenile literature
- Excavations (Archaeology) > United States > Juvenile literature
- Underground Railroad
- Fugitive slaves
- Antislavery movements
- African Americans > History > Sources
- African Americans
- African Americans > Antiquities
- Antiquities
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- United States > History, Local > Juvenile literature
- United States > Antiquities > Juvenile literature
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Local history.
- Sources.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-158) and index.
- Contents
- Running South : artifacts from Fort Mose -- Land of the free : History on a ship's log -- A more perfect Union : learning from the law -- Running : The WPA slave narratives -- Steal away : the enslaved speak through spirituals -- I will be heard : archaeology meets an oral tradition -- midnight seekers after liberty : anecdotes and memories uncover the past -- The last stop : outrunning the fugitive slave laws -- A mystery : when history keeps a secret -- The search continues.
- Call Number
- Sc E 03-862
- ISBN
- 0812626737
- 9780812626735
- LCCN
- 2002013711
- OCLC
- 50609344
- Author
- Hansen, Joyce, author.
- Title
- Freedom roads : searching for the Underground Railroad / Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan.
- Publisher
- Chicago, Ill. : Cricket Books, 2003.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-158) and index.
- Added Author
- McGowan, Gary, author.Ransome, James, ill.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 03-862J 973.71 H