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Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Underground railroad |
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Author | : Dona Stokes-Lucas |
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Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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Author | : Pamela R. Peters |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2017-07-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0786450622 |
Floyd County, Indiana, and its county seat, New Albany, are located directly across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky. Louisville was a major slave-trade center, and Indiana was a free state. Many slaves fled to Floyd County via the Underground Railroad, but their fight for freedom did not end once they reached Indiana. Sufficient information on slaves coming to and through this important area may be found in court records, newspaper stories, oral history accounts, and other materials that a full and fascinating history is possible, one detailing the struggles that runaway slaves faced in Floyd County, such as local, state, and federal laws working together to keep them from advancing socially, politically, and economically. This work also discusses the attitudes, people, and places that help in explaining the successes and heartaches of escaping slaves in Floyd County. Included are a number of freedom and manumission papers, which provided court certification of the freedom of former slaves.
Author | : Gwenyth Swain |
Publisher | : Millbrook Press |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781575055510 |
A biography of a Quaker man from North Carolina whose fearless work on the Underground Railroad in Indiana and Ohio helped thousands of men and women escape the cruelty of slavery.
Author | : William Monroe Cockrum |
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Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Antislavery movements |
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History of the Underground railroad in Indiana.
Author | : Shannon Sullivan Hudson |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2017-06-09 |
Genre | : Abolitionists |
ISBN | : 9781547105847 |
"Montgomery County, Indiana's history of the Underground Railroad focuses on the people involved. Documentation recounts few feats of derring--do and midnight runs through the woods in our county's past. While this book does have a few escape stories, both successful and unsuccessful, it tells more about who made their homes here after leaving lives of oppression. What is included within these pages is a story about people who, by choice, were bound together by a common purpose."--Back cover.
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Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fugitive slaves |
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The counties concerned are Lake, Porter, LaPorte, St. Joseph, Wabash, Huntington, Grant.
Author | : Kaavonia Hinton |
Publisher | : Mitchell Lane |
Total Pages | : 77 |
Release | : 2020-02-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1545749450 |
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.
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Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Antislavery movements |
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Author | : Judith Fowler Robbins |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-12 |
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ISBN | : 9781440108143 |
It was actually together that the men decided to return to Jamestown to take issue with the land company that had sold the tract to Captain Ballew. The agent had a solution: "Buy slaves to clear and terrace the acres; then, you can plant grass and grain to raise livestock and feed horses." Now this was a completely new notion to George. "Slaves?" He couldn't believe his ears. "My father would never have approved of enslaving men." "It's the only way to get ahead in America," the agent barked. "It's up to you, but you'll take my advice if you're smart. Otherwise, there's nothing I can do. A deal is a deal." For a week, the Scotsman brooded over the matter while he tarried in Jamestown with his men. He thought of returning to Scotland to the farms and mills his older brothers had inherited. The thought made him almost ill. He decided that he could not go back - no matter what." "Work for my brothers?" he asked himself. "I'd be no more than an indenture myself." The more he thought, the more he could find no alternative to buying slaves if he wanted to claim his American inheritance. Half-heartedly, with more than a little remorse, George bought ten slaves at auction in Jamestown to work alongside the Scottish immigrants. Among them were three women: one was a young mulatto woman called Lucy, who couldn't have been more than fifteen; another was Sena, a thirty-ish, portly black woman who was presented on the block as a fabulous cook; the third was a portly grounds servant named Bess, who was advertized as an excellent gardener and herbalist. In an effort to clear his conscience, George told himself that he would treat these ten American slaves as indentures, that he would release the slaves at the same time his Scotsmen finished their seven years with him. This notion of freeing the slaves after seven years was a private goal; but, so far as anyone else knew, they were slaves in the true sense of the word - for life. Watch as a new American Spirit tumbles into the Riley's Mill community on the heels of Scottish immigrants, and a family of Virginia slaves gets on board the Underground Railroad for a daring ride into the Indiana heartland.