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Series
Tract volume no. 87
Publisher
Western Reserve Historical Society
Pub. Date
1895.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (91-121 pages).
Language
English
Series
Handbook volume 156
Publisher
Division of Publications, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (87 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The traces of the Underground Railroad hide in plain sight: a great church in Philadelphia; a humble old house backing up to the New Jersey Turnpike; an industrial outbuilding in Ohio. Over the course of four years, David Goodrich rode his bicycle 3,000 miles east of the Mississippi to travel the routes of the Underground Railroad and delve into the history and stories in the places where they happened.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and popularized the term "underground railroad." Born into slavery, Thomas Smallwood was free, self-educated, and working as a shoemaker a short walk from the U.S. Capitol by the 1840s. He recruited a young white activist, Charles Torrey, and together they began to organize mass escapes from Washington,...
Author
Series
Brown mountain lights volume 3
Publisher
Spring Creek Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
An abolitionist, Lizzie lives in a state that has seceded from the Union and finds herself, as a woman of that era, unable to protect slaves being mistreated by their plantation owners as well as women who suffer at the hands of their husbands, without rights or laws to protect them. Lizzie continues to learn herbal healing from the Collins sisters while helping her beau Josh transport runaway slaves to safety via the Underground Railroad. She begins...
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