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Author | : Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander, PhD |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1625859635 |
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A part of the Underground Railroad, read here of enslaved people and their stories of using Virginia's waterways to achieve freedom. Enslaved Virginians sought freedom from the time they were first brought to the Jamestown colony in 1619. Acts of self-emancipation were aided by Virginia's waterways, which became part of the network of the Underground Railroad in the years before the Civil War. Watermen willing to help escaped slaves made eighteenth-century Norfolk a haven for freedom seekers. Famous nineteenth-century escapees like Shadrack Minkins and Henry Box Brown were aided by the Underground Railroad. Enslaved men like Henry Lewey, known as Bluebeard, aided freedom seekers as conductors, and black and white sympathizers acted as station masters. Historian Cassandra Newby-Alexander narrates the ways that enslaved people used Virginia's waterways to achieve humanity's dream of freedom.
Author | : Henry Robert Burke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001-08 |
Genre | : Fugitive slaves |
ISBN | : 9780964525221 |
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A fictionalized account of one family's escape from slavery via the Underground Railroad in western Virginia in August of 1843.
Author | : Barbara Brooks Simons |
Publisher | : Benchmark Education Company |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 145090744X |
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Find out about the secret language of the Underground Railroad and the routes that helped slaves escape to freedom.
Author | : Michael Burgan |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1438106548 |
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Describes the system by which black slaves escaped captivity in the southern United States.
Author | : Virginia Loh-Hagan |
Publisher | : Cherry Lake |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2019-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1534141170 |
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The events surrounding the Underground Railroad did not look the same to everyone involved. Step back in time and into the shoes of a slave, a slave owner, and a conductor on the railroad as readers act out scenes that took place in the midst of this historic event. Written with simplified, considerate text to help struggling readers, books in this series are made to build confidence as readers engage and read aloud. This book includes a table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, sidebars, and timelines.
Author | : Margaret McNamara |
Publisher | : Benchmark Education Company |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1410864464 |
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Read about the Underground Railroad.
Author | : Timothy D. Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2021-04-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781625345936 |
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In 1858, Mary Millburn successfully made her escape from Norfolk, Virginia, to Philadelphia aboard an express steamship. Millburn's maritime route to freedom was far from uncommon. By the mid-nineteenth century an increasing number of enslaved people had fled northward along the Atlantic seaboard. While scholarship on the Underground Railroad has focused almost exclusively on overland escape routes from the antebellum South, this groundbreaking volume expands our understanding of how freedom was achieved by sea and what the journey looked like for many African Americans. With innovative scholarship and thorough research, Sailing to Freedom highlights little-known stories and describes the less-understood maritime side of the Underground Railroad, including the impact of African Americans' paid and unpaid waterfront labor. These ten essays reconsider and contextualize how escapes were managed along the East Coast, moving from the Carolinas, Virginia, and Maryland to safe harbor in northern cities such as Philadelphia, New York, New Bedford, and Boston. In addition to the volume editor, contributors include David S. Cecelski, Elysa Engelman, Kathryn Grover, Megan Jeffreys, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Mirelle Luecke, Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Michael D. Thompson, and Len Travers.
Author | : William J. Switala |
Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2004-06-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0811749606 |
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Detailed maps trace the routes runaway slaves followed. Explores the impact of geography, transportation, free blacks, and members of religious congregations on the Underground Railroad. Information on modern roads and landmarks allows readers to retrace escape paths.
Author | : Ann Hagedorn |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2008-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439128669 |
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Beyond the River brings to brilliant life the dramatic story of the forgotten heroes of the Ripley, Ohio, line of the Underground Railroad. From the highest hill above the town of Ripley, Ohio, you can see five bends in the Ohio River. You can see the hills of northern Kentucky and the rooftops of Ripley’s riverfront houses. And you can see what the abolitionist John Rankin saw from his house at the top of that hill, where for nearly forty years he placed a lantern each night to guide fugitive slaves to freedom beyond the river. In Beyond the River, Ann Hagedorn tells the remarkable story of the participants in the Ripley line of the Underground Railroad, bringing to life the struggles of the men and women, black and white, who fought “the war before the war” along the Ohio River. Determined in their cause, Rankin, his family, and his fellow abolitionists—some of them former slaves themselves—risked their lives to guide thousands of runaways safely across the river into the free state of Ohio, even when a sensational trial in Kentucky threatened to expose the Ripley “conductors.” Rankin, the leader of the Ripley line and one of the early leaders of the antislavery movement, became nationally renowned after the publication of his Letters on American Slavery, a collection of letters he wrote to persuade his brother in Virginia to renounce slavery. A vivid narrative about memorable people, Beyond the River is an inspiring story of courage and heroism that transports us to another era and deepens our understanding of the great social movement known as the Underground Railroad.
Author | : William Still |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 850 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : Antislavery movements |
ISBN | : |
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