Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 201 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0813143551
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0813108640
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9780813143552
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9780813108643
Content:
Organization spirited floods of slaves away from the South. In contrast to that legend, the slaves themselves had active roles in their own escapes from slave states. They carried out their runs to the North, receiving aid only after they had reached territory where they still faced return under the Fugitive Slave Law. Thus, The Liberty Line places fugitive slaves in their rightful position: the center of their struggle for freedom
Content:
The underground railroad - with its mysterious signals, secret depots, abolitionist heroes, and slave-hunting villains - has become part of American mythology. But legend has distorted much of the history of this institution, which Larry Gara carefully investigates in this important study. Gara show how pre-Civil War partisan propaganda, postwar reminiscences by fame-hungry abolitionists, and oral tradition helped foster the popular belief that a powerful secret
Content:
1. The Legendary Railroad -- 2. Slavery and Freedom -- 3. The Road to the North -- 4. A Deep-Laid Scheme -- 5. Friends of the Fugitive -- 6. The Fugitive Issue -- 7. The Roots of a Legend -- 8. Reminiscence and Romance
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Originally published: Lexington : University of Kentucky Press, 1961. With new pref
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gara, Larry Liberty line Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1996
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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