Underground Philadelphia

Author : Harry Kyriakodis,Joel Spivak
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439666142

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Underground Philadelphia by Harry Kyriakodis,Joel Spivak Pdf

Explore Philadelphia's relationship with the underground, as old as the city itself, dating back to when Quaker settlers resided in caves alongside the Delaware River more than three hundred years ago. Explore the city under the The City of Brotherly Love, which became a national and world leader in the delivery of water, gas, steam, and electricity during the industrial age. The construction of multiple subway lines within Center City took place during the early twentieth century. An intricate subsurface pedestrian concourse was also developed throughout the downtown area for the city's inhabitants. From Thirtieth Street Station and Reading Terminal to the Commuter Rail Tunnel and transit lines that were never built, Philadelphia's infrastructure history is buried under the earth as much as above. Join authors Harry Kyriakodis and Joel Spivak as they reveal the curious aspects of the Quaker City's underground experience.

Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Gallopade International
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0635021110

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The Mystery on the Underground Railroad Teacher's Guide by Carole Marsh Pdf

Accelerated Reader: Reading Level 5.1, 3 Points.

Author : William J. Switala
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811746298

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Underground Railroad in New York and New Jersey by William J. Switala Pdf

• Maps of the major escape routes • Identifies houses and sites where slaves found refuge • Chapter on Canada discusses the final destination Tells the story of the network that guided escaped slaves to freedom, its operation, its important figures, and its specific history in New York and New Jersey. Pinpoints major routes in the states, with maps and information for locating them today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1586 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112063914490

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Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Boston (Mass.). City Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1404 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Boston (Mass.)
ISBN : UOM:39015077090622

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Reports of Proceedings ... by Boston (Mass.). City Council Pdf

Author : KaaVonia Hinton
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612288284

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The Story of the Underground Railroad by KaaVonia Hinton Pdf

No one really knows when the Underground Railroad began, but we do know this network of blacks, whites, Native Americans, and others helped thousands of escapees reach free land. Find out about the secret world of conductors, agents, and stations that helped enslaved people in North America gain freedom, from the mid 1600s through the end of the Civil War.

Author : Tom Richmond,Susan Bandy
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781532027338

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Five Beneath Philly by Tom Richmond,Susan Bandy Pdf

Allen Williams plans to make something of his life and escape South Philly and the work at Cross Brothers Meat Packing Plant. He prepares himself with excellent grades and an upcoming full-ride scholarship to climb out of South Philly forever. Then fate changes his whole world. An only son in a family of six, Allen suddenly finds himself responsible for his mother, grandmother, and sisters after his dad suffers a massive heart attack brought on by years of grueling work, Lucky Strikes, and beer-soaked nights. In the end, this blow brings him Amy, his true love, and an adventure of a lifetime. Allen and his friends are intent on surviving their adventure together in a tunnel beneath the city. Though they seek treasure, the struggle for their lives is real. When the quest is planned, Allen and his friends do not conceive the nearly insurmountable difficulties they would face. By hanging onto the true gift of friendship, they also uncover other amazing treasures.

Author : William Still
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 2038 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1872-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465545510

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The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom as Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author by William Still Pdf

Author : Khan Lurey Khan,Lurey Khan
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440186264

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William Still and the Underground Railroad by Khan Lurey Khan,Lurey Khan Pdf

The Stills were the prototypical African American family who lived, worked, and sometimes prospered before, during, and after the Civil War. History is replete with the selfless contributions of these black individuals. Beginning in the waning decades of the 18th century on Maryland's Eastern Shore, a slave named Levin Steel confronted his slave master with a demand his owner could not ignore-his urge to be a free man. He bought himself, settled in the Pines of Burlington County, New Jersey, in 1806, and was soon joined there by his self-emancipated wife, Charity. The dynasty these hardworking former slaves began in 1807 produced a bevy of freeborn children, who were the ancestors of our central character, William Still. Although it was William who ran station two, the hub of the American Underground Railroad in Philadelphia, beginning in the 1840s, his siblings accomplished a staggering list of professional, entrepreneurial, social welfare, and legal activities while the mass of American slaves lay in chains in the South. After the Civil War, when emancipation came to the slaves, William Still, a successful coal merchant, used his own money to finance a host of civil rights and other social reforms to elevate the freed men arriving in the city.

Author : William J. Switala
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811749121

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Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania by William J. Switala Pdf

Revised and expanded with recently uncovered information. Detailed maps of escape routes and networks. Eyewitness accounts of fugitives.

Author : Ilyon Woo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501191060

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Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo Pdf

In December 1848, a young enslaved couple named Ellen and William Craft traveled openly by rail, coach and steamship from Macon, Georgia, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ellen, who passed for white, disguised herself as a wealthy disabled man, with William as "his" slave. Woo follows their journey north, and in joining the abolitionist lecture circuit. When the new Fugitive Slave Law in 1850 put them at risk, they fled from the United States. Their very existence challenged the nation's core precepts of life, liberty, and justice for all. -- Adapted from jacket.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electrical engineering
ISBN : CUB:U183026545523

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The Electrical World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Boston (Mass.). City Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1332 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Boston (Mass.)
ISBN : UOM:39015068187619

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Documents of the City of Boston by Boston (Mass.). City Council Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1596 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Telephone
ISBN : OSU:32435063043475

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Telephony by Anonim Pdf

Author : Brian Prickett
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781105904646

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Vision Quest The Orphan Trains & Underground Railroad of Cape May by Brian Prickett Pdf