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Passages to freedom : the Underground Railroad in history and memory / edited by David W. Blight.

Title
Passages to freedom : the Underground Railroad in history and memory / edited by David W. Blight.
Publication
Washington [D.C.] : Smithsonian Books in association with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, c2004.

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Additional Authors
Blight, David W.
Description
xiii, 337 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.); 27 cm.
Summary
  • "Few things have defined America as much as slavery. In the wake of emancipation the story of the Underground Railroad has become a seemingly irresistible part of American historical consciousness. This stirring drama is one Americans have needed to tell and retell and pass onto their children. But just how much of the Underground Railroad is real, how much legend and mythology, how much invention? Passages to Freedom sets out to answer this question and place it within the context of slavery, emancipation, and its aftermath."
  • "In this volume, editor David W. Blight brings together leading historians to explore every aspect of the network: the hiding places, the way stations, the daring routes over land and sea, the role of American Indians, and the crossing of borders into Mexico and the Caribbean. What emerges is a new, deeply compelling understanding of slavery and manumission in America. The writers also look at the explosion at the turn of the twenty-first century of interest in Underground Railroad sites."
  • "Published on the occasion of the opening of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, and drawing on documents, broadsides, and photographs from around the country, Passages to Freedom brings home the reality of slavery's destructiveness."--Jacket.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Local history
  • Aufsatzsammlung.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-331) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Before cotton: African and African American slavery in mainland North America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Ira Berlin -- Simple truths: antebellum slavery in black and white / Deborah Gray White -- From moral suasion to political confrontation: American abolitionists and the problem of resistance, 1831-1861 / James Brewer Stewart -- Above ground on the underground railroad: places of flight and refuge / John Michael Vlach -- Southern passage: the forgotten route to freedom in Florida / Jane Landers -- "Freemen to the rescue!": resistance to the fugitive slave law of 1850 / R. J. M. Blackett -- Kidnapping and resistance: antislavery direct action in the 1850s / Lois E. Horton -- Crusade for freedom: William Still and the real Underground Railroad / James Oliver Horton -- "Slavery is war": Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad / Catherine Clinton -- Flight and fight: the wartime destruction of slavery, 1861-1865 / Bruce Levine -- Why the Underground Railroad, and why now? A long view / David W. Blight -- Telling it like it was at Rokeby: the evolution of an Underground Railroad historic site in Vermont / Jane Williamson -- Reading freedom's memory book: recovering the story of the Underground Railroad in New York State / Milton C. Sernett -- Places and communities of the Underground Railroad: the National Park Service network to freedom / Diane Miller -- Sacred drama: "Exodus" and the Underground Railroad in African American life / Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
ISBN
  • 1588341577 (alk. paper)
  • 1588341585 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2003044289
OCLC
  • 53013164
  • SCSB-12636185
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library