Interviews and excerpts from diaries, letters, biographies, memoirs, speeches, and other firsthand accounts shed much light on the origins of a system that provided aid to fugitive slaves. 46 black-and-white illustrations.
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Höhe: 215 mm
Breite: 139 mm
Dicke: 29 mm
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978-0-486-45039-1 (9780486450391)
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I. Sources of the History of the Underground Railroad
II. Origin and Growth of the Underground Road
III. The Methods of the Underground Railroad
IV. Underground Agents, Station-Keepers, or Conductors
V. Study of the Map of the Underground Railroad System
VI. Abduction of Slaves from the South
VII. Life of the Colored Refugees in Canada
VIII. Fugitive Settlers in the Northern States
IX. Prosecutions of Underground Railroad Men
X. The Underground Railroad in Politics
XI. Effect of the Underground Railroad
Illustrations, Portraits, Facsimiles and Maps
