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Author | : Rory Goff |
Publisher | : Merrymeeting Archives |
Total Pages | : 730 |
Release | : 2018-09-03 |
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ISBN | : 9781942745150 |
Download Who's Who in the Anti-Slavery and Underground Railroad Networks of Fairfield, Iowa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This Biographical Dictionary gives over 400 entries of more than 800 Free-Soilers, abolitionists, and Underground Railroad operators in and around Fairfield and Jefferson County, Iowa. Original research into genealogies, censuses, deeds, maps, old newspapers, and biographies uncovers the long-hidden ties between the anti-slavery people and places of Fairfield, Jefferson County, and southeast Iowa, as well as connections to other anti-slavery hotspots in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New England.
Author | : Rory Goff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 2018-06-12 |
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ISBN | : 9781942745129 |
Download Who's Who in the Anti-Slavery and Underground Railroad Networks of Fairfield, Iowa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This biographical dictionary lifts a 160-year veil of secrecy to reveal the lives of hundreds of pre-Civil War heroes who took a courageous stand for human rights over profits. This Who's Who gives over 400 entries of more than 800 Free-Soilers, abolitionists, and Underground Railroad operators in and around Fairfield and Jefferson County, Iowa. Original research into genealogies, censuses, deeds, maps, old newspapers, and biographies uncovers the long-hidden ties between the anti-slavery people and places of Fairfield, Jefferson County, and southeast Iowa, as well as connections to other anti-slavery hotspots in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New England.
Author | : Rory Goff |
Publisher | : Merrymeeting Archives |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2018-06-28 |
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ISBN | : 9781942745143 |
Download Anti-Slavery and the Underground Railroad in Fairfield, Iowa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The fruit of over ten years of deep research, this book reveals that by 1856, Fairfield was on the "direct line" as a prominent hub of Iowa's Underground Railroad. New evidence suggests that right from Fairfield's founding in 1839, some heroic Fairfielders were risking everything to illegally help Blacks flee captivity from the slave state of Missouri only 30 miles south. The book documents the tumultuous years before the Civil War to show how this farming community gradually evolved from a "hands-off" attitude toward Southern slavery, and awoke to its moral need to value human rights over profits. Original research into genealogies, censuses, deeds, maps, old newspapers, and biographies uncovers the long-hidden ties between the anti-slavery people and places of Fairfield, Jefferson County, and southeast Iowa, and places them in the context of the nations's quarter-century of growth in anti-slavery sentiment.
Author | : Rory Goff |
Publisher | : Merrymeeting Archives LLC |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2018-06-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1942745117 |
Download Major Mehitable Woods Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Mehitable Woods was a major in the Civil War, practically unheard-of for a woman at the time. This is the true story of the courageous life of Mehitable (Owen) Woods including her westward expansion from Vermont to New York and Ohio, to frontier life helping to build a new Iowan town, and four marriages. The outbreak of the Civil War provided the long-separated and childless Mehitable with ample opportunity to serve her community and her nation. "No power on earth will keep me from going!" Mehitable took supplies where they were most needed—to the battlefield. Governor Kirkwood gave her a major's commission to enable her to cut the army's red tape more effectively. By later accounts, "Mrs. Major Woods" made 13 trips, taking nine cargoes weighing between two and 37 tons each. If asked, she would always say, "I am going to see my sons, all of whom are in the army."
Author | : Robert H. Churchill |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2020-01-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108489125 |
Download The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A new interpretation of the Underground Railroad that places violence at the center of the story.
Author | : Jeffrey Copeland |
Publisher | : Paragon House |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781557789136 |
Download Ain't No Harm to Kill the Devil Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of the most amazing characters in American history was John Fairfield, a member of the Underground Railroad who helped slaves to freedom before the Civil War. His exploits are mentioned by notables such as Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Levi Coffin (the "President" of the Underground Railroad). All greatly admired him but were shocked by his tactics. Fairfield was the only high-profile abolitionist to charge people for his work. Some assert Fairfield exploited the slaves because he charged relatives in Canada to get their family members to safety, but he used the fees to help concoct elaborate ruses that he used to steal the slaves and help them to freedom. One time he led nineteen slaves to freedom by pretending to be an undertaker taking the body of a slave across the Ohio River to a slave cemetery on the other side. He had one slave (in an open coffin) pretend to be the deceased-and the other eighteen marched in a funeral procession right through the middle of town in plain sight. The townspeople stepped aside, out of respect for the "deceased," and watched him take all of them across the river to their freedom! Another time he pretended to be a poultry dealer, gaining the respect of all in a town, and then stole their slaves. Still another time he passed himself off as a businessman who needed to build boats to take salt to the South for a very profitable venture. He got many of the leading citizens of that town to invest in his project, and when the boats were finished, he chose a moonless night to get all the slaves to the boats-and had them row to freedom. Fairfield was seen by some as a scoundrel, a con-man, and a criminal. Others saw him as a very religious man who believed with all his heart that the evils of slavery needed to be wiped out-and he was willing to go to extremes to help with that cause. Fairfield wasn't as violent as, say, John Brown, but he still got the job done.
Author | : David A. Bateman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2018-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110847019X |
Download Disenfranchising Democracy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Disenfranchising Democracy examines the exclusions that accompany democratization and provides a theory of the expansion and restriction of voting rights.
Author | : Clarence R. Geier |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2017-02-10 |
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ISBN | : 9781541023482 |
Download The Historical Archaeology of Virginia from Initial Settlement to the Present Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The book includes six chapters that cover Virginia history from initial settlement through the 20th century plus one that deals with the important role of underwater archaeology. Written by prominent archaeologists with research experience in their respective topic areas, the chapters consider important issues of Virginia history and consider how the discipline of historic archaeology has addressed them and needs to address them . Changes in research strategy over time are discussed , and recommendations are made concerning the need to recognize the diverse and often differing roles and impacts that characterized the different regions of Virginia over the course of its historic past. Significant issues in Virginia history needing greater study are identified.
Author | : Wilbur Henry Siebert |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-01-09 |
Genre | : Fugitive slaves |
ISBN | : 9781522792444 |
Download The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
First published in 1898, this comprehensive history was the first documented survey of a system that helped fugitive slaves escape from areas in the antebellum South to regions as far north as Canada. Comprising fifty years of research, the text includes interviews and excerpts from diaries, letters, biographies, memoirs, speeches, and a large number of other firsthand accounts. Together, they shed much light on the origins of a system that provided aid to runaway slaves, including the degree of formal organization within the movement, methods of procedure, geographical range, leadership roles, the effectiveness of Canadian settlements, and the attitudes of courts and communities toward former slaves.
Author | : Robert K. Wright |
Publisher | : Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
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Download The Continental Army Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A narrative analysis of the complex evolution of the Continental Army, with the lineages of the 177 individual units that comprised the Army, and fourteen charts depicting regimental organization.