Enslavement And The Underground Railroad In Missouri And Illinois

Author : Arcadia Publishing
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439678657

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Enslavement and the Underground Railroad in Missouri and Illinois by Arcadia Publishing Pdf

The Path to Freedom in Missouri and Illinois People enslaved here experienced the same horrors as those held captive in other states, and their stories of courage and perseverance are amazing. Priscilla Baltimore purchased her own emancipation and founded a freedom village. Caroline Quarlls escaped to Canada. Many who fled for their lives spent time bunkered in the basement of Hanson House. The region's Congregationalists brought a fiery. brand of abolitionism. And Prairie Park still holds the faded "haint" blue paint traditionally used on slave dwellings. Author Julia Nicolai details these and other adjective stories.

Author : Julie Nicolai
Publisher : History Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1540257916

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Enslavement and the Underground Railroad in Missouri and Illinois by Julie Nicolai Pdf

The Path to Freedom in Missouri and Illinois People enslaved here experienced the same horrors as those held captive in other states, and their stories of courage and perseverance are amazing. Priscilla Baltimore purchased her own emancipation and founded a freedom village. Caroline Quarlls escaped to Canada. Many who fled for their lives spent time bunkered in the basement of Hanson House. The region's Congregationalists brought a fiery. brand of abolitionism. And Prairie Park still holds the faded "haint" blue paint traditionally used on slave dwellings. Author Julia Nicolai details these and other adjective stories.

Author : Owen W. Muelder
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Abolitionists
ISBN : UOM:39015074250310

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The Underground Railroad in Western Illinois by Owen W. Muelder Pdf

Fugitives fleeing from slavery in Kentucky, Missouri, and points farther south traversed the entire state of Illinois while moving northward. But they were most likely to receive help from Underground railroad operators if they passed through western Illinois, where a good number of Underground Railroad agents lived.This book briefly discusses the Underground Railroad throughout the United States and all of Illinois. It addresses at length the activities of Underground Railroad operators, both black and white, in western Illinois. The compelling efforts of these people have been surprisingly neglected; this book examines in detail their significant contributions to this heroic chapter in American history.

Author : Wilbur Henry Siebert
Publisher : New York : Russell & Russell
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Fugitive slaves
ISBN : UCSC:32106000604956

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The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom by Wilbur Henry Siebert Pdf

Author : William Henry Siebert
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1898-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The underground railroad from slavery to freedom by William Henry Siebert Pdf

Author : Raymond Bial
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780395979150

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The Underground Railroad by Raymond Bial Pdf

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Author : Wilbur Henry Siebert
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547015109

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The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom by Wilbur Henry Siebert Pdf

The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom is a book by Wilbur Henry Siebert. It presents the first survey of how runaway slaves managed to escape from areas in the South to territories as far north as Canada.

Author : Wilbur Henry Siebert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Fugitive slaves
ISBN : OSU:32435074353939

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Light on the Underground Railroad by Wilbur Henry Siebert Pdf

Author : J. Blaine Hudson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476604220

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Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky Borderland by J. Blaine Hudson Pdf

Between 1783 and 1860, more than 100,000 enslaved African Americans escaped across the border between slave and free territory in search of freedom. Most of these escapes were unaided, but as the American anti-slavery movement became more militant after 1830, assisted escapes became more common. Help came from the Underground Railroad, which still stands as one of the most powerful and sustained multiracial human rights movements in world history. This work examines and interprets the available historical evidence about fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad in Kentucky, the southernmost sections of the free states bordering Kentucky along the Ohio River, and, to a lesser extent, the slave states to the immediate south. Kentucky was central to the Underground Railroad because its northern boundary, the Ohio River, represented a three hundred mile boundary between slavery and nominal freedom. The book examines the landscape of Kentucky and the surrounding states; fugitive slaves before 1850, in the 1850s and during the Civil War; and their motivations and escape strategies and the risks involved with escape. The reasons why people broke law and social convention to befriend fugitive slaves, common escape routes, crossing points through Kentucky from Tennessee and points south, and specific individuals who provided assistance—all are topics covered.

Author : Ann Malaspina
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Abolitionists
ISBN : 9781438131290

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The Underground Railroad by Ann Malaspina Pdf

When the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 was passed by Congress, the flight to freedom for runaway slaves became even more dangerous. Even the free cities of Boston and Philadelphia were no longer safe, and abolitionists who despised slavery had to turn in fugitives. But the Underground Railroad, a secret and loosely organized network of people and safe houses that led slaves to freedom, only grew stronger. Since the late 1700s, blacks and whites had banded together to aid runaways like Maryland slave Frederick Douglass, who disguised himself as a sailor to board a train to New York. Virginia slave Henry Brown packed himself in a box to get to Philadelphia. The minister John Rankin, who hung a lantern to guide runaways to his house by the Ohio River, endured beatings for speaking against slavery. Quaker storeowner Thomas Garrett was put on trial for helping fugitives in Delaware. Meanwhile, the nation marched on toward Civil War. At its height, between 1810 and 1850, these secret routes and safe houses were used by an estimated 30,000 people escaping enslavement. In The Underground Railroad: The Journey to Freedom, read how this secret system worked in the days leading up to the Civil War and the pivotal role it played in the abolitionist movement.

Author : Wilbur H. Siebert
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9389465478

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The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom by Wilbur H. Siebert Pdf

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Author : Cheryl Janifer LaRoche
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252095894

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Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad by Cheryl Janifer LaRoche Pdf

This enlightening study employs the tools of archaeology to uncover a new historical perspective on the Underground Railroad. Unlike previous histories of the Underground Railroad, which have focused on frightened fugitive slaves and their benevolent abolitionist accomplices, Cheryl LaRoche focuses instead on free African American communities, the crucial help they provided to individuals fleeing slavery, and the terrain where those flights to freedom occurred. This study foregrounds several small, rural hamlets on the treacherous southern edge of the free North in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. LaRoche demonstrates how landscape features such as waterways, iron forges, and caves played a key role in the conduct and effectiveness of the Underground Railroad. Rich in oral histories, maps, memoirs, and archaeological investigations, this examination of the "geography of resistance" tells the new powerful and inspiring story of African Americans ensuring their own liberation in the midst of oppression.

Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317454168

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The Underground Railroad by Mary Ellen Snodgrass Pdf

The culmination of years of research in dozens of archives and libraries, this fascinating encyclopedia provides an unprecedented look at the network known as the Underground Railroad - that mysterious "system" of individuals and organizations that helped slaves escape the American South to freedom during the years before the Civil War. In operation as early as the 1500s and reaching its peak with the abolitionist movement of the antebellum period, the Underground Railroad saved countless lives and helped alter the course of American history. This is the most complete reference on the Underground Railroad ever published. It includes full coverage of the Railroad in both the United States and Canada, which was the ultimate destination of many of the escaping slaves. "The Underground Railroad: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations" explores the people, places, writings, laws, and organizations that made this network possible. More than 1,500 entries detail the families and personalities involved in the operation, and sidebars extract primary source materials for longer entries. This encyclopedia features extensive supporting materials, including maps with actual Underground Railroad escape routes, photos, a chronology, genealogies of those involved in the operation, a listing of Underground Railroad operatives by state or Canadian province, a "passenger" list of escaping slaves, and primary and secondary source bibliographies.

Author : Larry McClellan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733064915

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The Underground Railroad South of Chicago by Larry McClellan Pdf

A history of the networks of the Underground Railroad in the region south of Chicago and accounts of freedom seekers traveling through the region. From La Salle and Livingston Counties to the west and east across southern Cook and Will Counties into northwest Indiana, thousands of freedom seekers passed through on their journeys to Canada. In the decades before the Civil War, those going to Chicago and those bypassing the growing city found assistance in small communities and with farmers committed to the abolition of slavery and willing to provide aid.

Author : Larry Gara
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813143569

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The Liberty Line by Larry Gara Pdf

" The underground railroad—with its mysterious signals, secret depots, abolitionist heroes, and slave-hunting villains—has become part of American mythology. But legend has distorted much of this history. Larry Gara shows how pre-Civil War partisan propanda, postwar remininscences by fame-hungry abolitionists, and oral tradition helped foster the popular belief that a powerful secret organization spirited floods of slaves away from the South. In contrast to much popular belief, however, the slaves themselves had active roles in their own escape. They carried out their runs, receiving aid only after they had reached territory where they still faced return. The Liberty Line puts slaves in their rightful position: the center of their struggle for freedom.