Blockson, Charles Underground Railroad ISBN 13: 9780425115886

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Shares the stories of Black men and women who escaped from slavery and fled to freedom in the North

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A fascinating collection of letters, diaries and narratives of slaves who risked death to find freedom, including Henry "Box" Brown, who nailed himself into a box and had it shipped to Phildelphia; William and Ellen Craft, who posed as master and slave and traveled openly out of the South; and an anonymous young woman who escaped with the help of Union soldiers by dressing as one of them. Organized geographically, with accompanying historical notes and sixteen pages of photographs.
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The grandson of an escaped slave, historian Blockson has compiled and edited 47 first-person accounts of blacks who stole their way to freedom via the harrowing stratagems and hidden routes generically called the underground railroad. Few of the accounts will be new to students of the rich lode of ex-slaves' narratives; but Blockson brings to bear years of work as the curator of Temple University's Afro-American Collection and his earlier mapping of routes in a National Geographic article. His focus on the emotion and uncertainty of escape makes this work a handy primer on the pain, daring, and drama of the slaves' flight. For Afro-American and antebellum collections.Thomas J. Davis, SUNY at Buffalo
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  • PublisherBerkley
  • Publication date1989
  • ISBN 10 0425115887
  • ISBN 13 9780425115886
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