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Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania

Author : William J. Switala
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0811716295

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Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania by William J. Switala Pdf

Includes detailed maps of the known routes and railroad sites. Organized in antebellum America to help slaves escape to freedom, the Underground Railroad was cloaked in secrecy and operated at great peril to everyone involved. The system was extremely active in Pennsylvania, with routes in all parts of the state.This book retraces those routes, discusses the large city networks, identifies the houses and sites where escapees found refuge, and records the names of the people who risked their lives to support the operation.

The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania

Author : Charles L. Blockson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039202010

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Abandoned Tracks

Author : W. Thomas Mainwaring
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780268103606

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Abandoned Tracks by W. Thomas Mainwaring Pdf

In Abandoned Tracks, W. Thomas Mainwaring bridges the gap between scholarly and popular perceptions of the Underground Railroad. Historians have long recognized that many aspects of the Underground Railroad have been mythologized by emotion, memory, time, and wishful thinking. Mainwaring’s book is a rich, in-depth attempt to separate fact from fiction in one local area, while also contributing to a scholarly discussion of the Underground Railroad by placing Washington County, Pennsylvania, in the national context. Just as the North was not consistent in its perspective on the Civil War and the slavery issue, the Underground Railroad had distinct regional variations. Washington County had a well-organized abolition movement, even though its members helped a comparatively small number of fugitive slaves escape, largely because of the small nearby slave population in what was then western Virginia. Its origins as a slave county make it an interesting case study of the transition from slavery to freedom and of the origins of black and white abolitionism. Abandoned Tracks lends much to the ongoing scholarly debate about the extent, scope, and nature of the Underground Railroad. This book is written both for scholars of abolitionism and the Underground Railroad and for an audience interested in local history.

Just Over the Line

Author : William C. Kashatus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Antislavery movements
ISBN : 092970617X

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Slavery & the Underground Railroad in South Central Pennsylvania

Author : Cooper H Wingert
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625857323

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Slavery & the Underground Railroad in South Central Pennsylvania by Cooper H Wingert Pdf

This in-depth history examines how a stronghold of slavery in Pennsylvania became a central hub for the abolitionist cause. Much like the rest of the nation, South Central Pennsylvania has a fraught history of struggle over slavery. The institution lingered locally for more than fifty years, even as it went virtually extinct everywhere else within Pennsylvania. Gradually, abolitionist views prevailed as the region became an important destination for enslaved people escaping the south. The Appalachian Mountains and the Susquehanna River provided natural cover for fugitive, causing an influx of travel along the Underground Railroad. Locals like William Wright and James McAllister assisted these runaways while publicly advocating to abolish slavery. In this expert study, historian Cooper Wingert reveals the struggles between slavery and abolition in South Central Pennsylvania.

The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America

Author : Robert H. Churchill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108489126

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The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America by Robert H. Churchill Pdf

A new interpretation of the Underground Railroad that places violence at the center of the story.

Abolition & the Underground Railroad in Chester County, Pennsylvania

Author : Mark Lanyon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439674406

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Abolition & the Underground Railroad in Chester County, Pennsylvania by Mark Lanyon Pdf

Chester County was home to a diverse patchwork of religious communities, antislavery activists and free Black populations, all working to end the blight of slavery during the Civil War era. Kennett Square was known as the "hotbed of abolitionism," with more Underground Railroad stations than anywhere else in the nation. Reverend John Miller Dickey and the Hinsonville community under the leadership of James Ralston Amos and Thomas Henry Amos founded the Ashmun Institute, later renamed Lincoln University, the nation's oldest degree-granting Historically Black College and University. The county's myriad Quaker communities fostered strong abolitionist sentiment and a robust pool of activists aiding runaway slaves on their road to emancipation. Author Mark Lanyon captures the rich history of antislavery activity that transformed Chester County into a vital region in the nation's fight for freedom.

History of the Underground Railroad

Author : R. C. Smedley
Publisher : Beaufort Books
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1969-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0405018959

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History of the Underground Railroad by R. C. Smedley Pdf

Wishing only to accumulate sufficient information for a newspaper article the author's inquiries yielded enough material for this book on the Negro escape route to the North

On the Edge of Freedom

Author : David G. Smith
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823263967

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On the Edge of Freedom by David G. Smith Pdf

This groundbreaking Civil War history illuminates the unique development of antislavery sentiment in the border region of south central Pennsylvania. During the antebellum decades every single fugitive slave escaping by land east of the Appalachian Mountains had to pass through south central Pennsylvania, where they faced both significant opportunities and substantial risks. While the hundreds of fugitives traveling through Adams, Franklin, and Cumberland counties were aided by an effective Underground Railroad, they also faced slave catchers and informers. In On the Edge of Freedom, historian David G. Smith traces the victories of antislavery activists in south central Pennsylvania, including the achievement of a strong personal liberty law and the aggressive prosecution of kidnappers who seized African Americans as fugitives. He also documents how their success provoked Southern retaliation and the passage of a strengthened Fugitive Slave Law in 1850. Smith explores the fugitive slave issue through fifty years of sectional conflict, war, and reconstruction in south central Pennsylvania and provocatively questions what was gained by emphasizing fugitive protection over immediate abolition and full equality. Smith argues that after the war, social and demographic changes in southern Pennsylvania worked against African Americans’ achieving equal opportunity. Although local literature portrayed this area as a vanguard of the Underground Railroad, African Americans still lived “on the edge of freedom.” Winner of the Hortense Simmons Prize

History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania (Classic Reprint)

Author : Robert Clemens Smedley
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0259406171

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History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania (Classic Reprint) by Robert Clemens Smedley Pdf

Excerpt from History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania It is with feelings of much gratification that he is able to present to the readers the portraits of many of the leading men and women who were actively engaged in the Underground Railroad, who dared to open their houses to the fugitive slave, and to do unto him as they would be done by. With the exception of a few cuts, furnished through the kindness of William Still, all have been engraved expressly for this work from the best likenesses in the possession of the families. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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

Author : William Still
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Abolitionists
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

Just Over the Line

Author : Chester County Historical Society (West Chester, Pa.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 092970617X

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The Underground Railroad

Author : Colson Whitehead
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345804327

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. • The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!

Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

Author : Eric Foner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393244380

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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad by Eric Foner Pdf

The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom. A deeply entrenched institution, slavery lived on legally and commercially even in the northern states that had abolished it after the American Revolution. Slaves could be found in the streets of New York well after abolition, traveling with owners doing business with the city's major banks, merchants, and manufacturers. New York was also home to the North’s largest free black community, making it a magnet for fugitive slaves seeking refuge. Slave catchers and gangs of kidnappers roamed the city, seizing free blacks, often children, and sending them south to slavery. To protect fugitives and fight kidnappings, the city's free blacks worked with white abolitionists to organize the New York Vigilance Committee in 1835. In the 1840s vigilance committees proliferated throughout the North and began collaborating to dispatch fugitive slaves from the upper South, Washington, and Baltimore, through Philadelphia and New York, to Albany, Syracuse, and Canada. These networks of antislavery resistance, centered on New York City, became known as the underground railroad. Forced to operate in secrecy by hostile laws, courts, and politicians, the city’s underground-railroad agents helped more than 3,000 fugitive slaves reach freedom between 1830 and 1860. Until now, their stories have remained largely unknown, their significance little understood. Building on fresh evidence—including a detailed record of slave escapes secretly kept by Sydney Howard Gay, one of the key organizers in New York—Foner elevates the underground railroad from folklore to sweeping history. The story is inspiring—full of memorable characters making their first appearance on the historical stage—and significant—the controversy over fugitive slaves inflamed the sectional crisis of the 1850s. It eventually took a civil war to destroy American slavery, but here at last is the story of the courageous effort to fight slavery by "practical abolition," person by person, family by family.