Hippocrene Guide to the Underground Railroad - Hardcover

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Offers a travel guide and historic reference to historic sites in twenty-three states and two Canadian provinces relating to the Underground Railroad

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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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  • PublisherHippocrene Books
  • Publication date1994
  • ISBN 10 0781802539
  • ISBN 13 9780781802536
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages380

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