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Bound for Canaan
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Fergus M. Bordewich |
A history of the Underground Railroad as the movement reflected America's moral complexities and political divisiveness offers insight into the role played by the nation's westward expansion, the spi… |
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To free a family
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Sydney Nathans |
What was it like for a mother to flee slavery, leaving her children behind? To Free a Family tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North and s… |
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Running a thousand miles for freedom
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William Craft |
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom details the escape of Ellen and William Craft from slavery in Georgia in the United States. Well publicized at the time, the married couple became celebrities in … |
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Bound for Canaan
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Fergus M. Bordewich |
With a historian's grasp of events and a novelist's ear for story, Fergus M. Bordewich has written a grand epic of American history — focusing on the sixty years leading up to the Civil War, which br… |
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The liberty line
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Larry Gara |
"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 the h… |
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Kidnappers in Philadelphia
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Isaac T. Hopper |
"Presents the original seventy-nine compiled narratives and eight new items, "The life of Cooper," plus seven newly discovered slave narratives published by Isaac Hopper in the National anti-slavery … |
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The underground rail road
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William Still |
<p><i>The Underground Railroad </i>(1872) is a book by African-American abolitionist and Father of the Underground Railroad, William Still. The book is a collection of testimonies from nearly 650 sla… |
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Narrative of William W. Brown
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William Wells Brown |
Narrative of the author's experiences as a slave in St. Louis and elsewhere. |
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My Bondage and My Freedom
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Frederick Douglass |
Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted Dougl… |
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