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Passages to freedom : the Underground Railroad in history and memory / edited by David W. Blight.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Books in association with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2004.Description: xiii, 337 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.), ports. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 1588341577 (alk. paper)
  • 1588341585 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.7/115 22
LOC classification:
  • E450 .P27 2004
Contents:
Before cotton: African and African American slavery in mainland North America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Ira Berlin -- Simple truths: antebellum slavery in black and white / Deborah Gray White -- From moral suasion to political confrontation: American abolitionists and the problem of resistance, 1831-1861 / James Brewer Stewart -- Above ground on the underground railroad: places of flight and refuge / John Michael Vlach -- Southern passage: the forgotten route to freedom in Florida / Jane Landers -- "Freemen to the rescue!": resistance to the fugitive slave law of 1850 / R.J.M. Blackett -- Kidnapping and resistance: antislavery direct action in the 1850s / Lois E. Horton -- Crusade for freedom: William Still and the real Underground Railroad / James Oliver Horton -- "Slavery is war": Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad / Catherine Clinton -- Flight and fight: the wartime destruction of slavery, 1861-1865 / Bruce Levine -- Why the Underground Railroad, and why now? A long view / David W. Blight -- Telling it like it was at Rokeby: the evolution of an Underground Railroad historic site in Vermont / Jane Williamson -- Reading freedom's memory book: recovering the story of the Underground Railroad in New York State / Milton C. Sernett -- Places and communities of the Underground Railroad: the National Park Service network to freedom / Diane Miller -- Sacred drama: "Exodus" and the Underground Railroad in African American life / Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Summary: Publisher description: Few things have defined America as much as slavery. In the wake of emancipation the story of the Underground Railroad has become a seemingly irresistible part of American historical consciousness. This stirring drama is one Americans have needed to tell and retell and pass on to their children. But just how much of the Underground Railroad is real, how much legend and mythology, how much invention? Passages to Freedom sets out to answer this question and place it within the context of slavery, emancipation, and its aftermath. Published on the occasion of the opening of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, Passages to Freedom brings home the reality of slavery's destructiveness. This distinguished yet accessible volume offers a galvanizing look at how the brave journey out of slavery both haunts and inspires us today.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-331) and index.

Before cotton: African and African American slavery in mainland North America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Ira Berlin -- Simple truths: antebellum slavery in black and white / Deborah Gray White -- From moral suasion to political confrontation: American abolitionists and the problem of resistance, 1831-1861 / James Brewer Stewart -- Above ground on the underground railroad: places of flight and refuge / John Michael Vlach -- Southern passage: the forgotten route to freedom in Florida / Jane Landers -- "Freemen to the rescue!": resistance to the fugitive slave law of 1850 / R.J.M. Blackett -- Kidnapping and resistance: antislavery direct action in the 1850s / Lois E. Horton -- Crusade for freedom: William Still and the real Underground Railroad / James Oliver Horton -- "Slavery is war": Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad / Catherine Clinton -- Flight and fight: the wartime destruction of slavery, 1861-1865 / Bruce Levine -- Why the Underground Railroad, and why now? A long view / David W. Blight -- Telling it like it was at Rokeby: the evolution of an Underground Railroad historic site in Vermont / Jane Williamson -- Reading freedom's memory book: recovering the story of the Underground Railroad in New York State / Milton C. Sernett -- Places and communities of the Underground Railroad: the National Park Service network to freedom / Diane Miller -- Sacred drama: "Exodus" and the Underground Railroad in African American life / Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Publisher description: Few things have defined America as much as slavery. In the wake of emancipation the story of the Underground Railroad has become a seemingly irresistible part of American historical consciousness. This stirring drama is one Americans have needed to tell and retell and pass on to their children. But just how much of the Underground Railroad is real, how much legend and mythology, how much invention? Passages to Freedom sets out to answer this question and place it within the context of slavery, emancipation, and its aftermath. Published on the occasion of the opening of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, Passages to Freedom brings home the reality of slavery's destructiveness. This distinguished yet accessible volume offers a galvanizing look at how the brave journey out of slavery both haunts and inspires us today.

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