- Description
- xiv, 258 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Journey to Freedom provides the first detailed history of Black enslavement in Nebraska Territory and the escape of two enslaved Black women-Celia and Eliza Grayson-from Nebraska City in 1858 to debate whether slavery could exist in the West, and whether popular sovereignty truly worked"--
- Alternative Title
- Uncovering the Grayson sisters' escape from Nebraska Territory
- Subject
- Grayson, Celia, 1836-
- Grayson, Eliza, 1838-
- 1800-1899
- Fugitive slaves > Nebraska > Biography
- Slavery > Nebraska > History
- African American women > Nebraska > Biography
- Escapes > Nebraska > History > 19th century
- Antislavery movements > Iowa > History > 19th century
- Sisters > Nebraska > Biography
- Noires américaines > Nebraska > Biographies
- Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Iowa > Histoire > 19e siècle
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery
- African American women
- Antislavery movements
- Escapes
- Fugitive slaves
- Sisters
- Slavery
- Nebraska City (Neb.) > Biography
- Grayson County (Va.) > Biography
- Iowa
- Nebraska
- Nebraska > Nebraska City
- Virginia > Grayson County
- Genre/Form
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781496231529
- 149623152X
- 9781496238603 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781496238610 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023039394
- OCLC
- YBP 2023039394
- Author
Blankenau, Gail Shaffer, author.
- Title
Journey to freedom : uncovering the Grayson sisters' escape from Nebraska Territory / Gail Shaffer Blankenau.
- Publisher
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2024]
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
1800-1899