A Primary Source Investigation of the Underground Railroad - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Primary Source Investigation of the Underground Railroad write by Viola Jones. This book was released on 2020-03-16. A Primary Source Investigation of the Underground Railroad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the decades before the Civil War effectively ended the institution of slavery in the United States, many people risked their lives to rescue Southern African Americans from the shackles of slavery and shepherd them to the safety of the Northern states and Canada. Thousands of slaves made the journey under cover of night. Once free, some became agents of the railroad while others educated those in the North about the horrors of slavery. The remarkable stories of people who would achieve freedom or die trying are chronicled within these pages.
A Primary Source Investigation of the Underground Railroad
A Primary Source Investigation of the Underground Railroad - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Primary Source Investigation of the Underground Railroad write by Viola Jones. This book was released on 2015-07-15. A Primary Source Investigation of the Underground Railroad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the decades before the Civil War effectively ended the institution of slavery in the United States, many people risked their lives to rescue Southern African Americans from the shackles of slavery and shepherd them to the safety of the Northern states and Canada. Thousands of slaves made the journey under cover of night. Once free, some became agents of the railroad while others educated those in the North about the horrors of slavery. The remarkable stories of people who would achieve freedom or die trying are chronicled within these pages.
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad write by Eric Foner. This book was released on 2015-01-19. Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom. A deeply entrenched institution, slavery lived on legally and commercially even in the northern states that had abolished it after the American Revolution. Slaves could be found in the streets of New York well after abolition, traveling with owners doing business with the city's major banks, merchants, and manufacturers. New York was also home to the North’s largest free black community, making it a magnet for fugitive slaves seeking refuge. Slave catchers and gangs of kidnappers roamed the city, seizing free blacks, often children, and sending them south to slavery. To protect fugitives and fight kidnappings, the city's free blacks worked with white abolitionists to organize the New York Vigilance Committee in 1835. In the 1840s vigilance committees proliferated throughout the North and began collaborating to dispatch fugitive slaves from the upper South, Washington, and Baltimore, through Philadelphia and New York, to Albany, Syracuse, and Canada. These networks of antislavery resistance, centered on New York City, became known as the underground railroad. Forced to operate in secrecy by hostile laws, courts, and politicians, the city’s underground-railroad agents helped more than 3,000 fugitive slaves reach freedom between 1830 and 1860. Until now, their stories have remained largely unknown, their significance little understood. Building on fresh evidence—including a detailed record of slave escapes secretly kept by Sydney Howard Gay, one of the key organizers in New York—Foner elevates the underground railroad from folklore to sweeping history. The story is inspiring—full of memorable characters making their first appearance on the historical stage—and significant—the controversy over fugitive slaves inflamed the sectional crisis of the 1850s. It eventually took a civil war to destroy American slavery, but here at last is the story of the courageous effort to fight slavery by "practical abolition," person by person, family by family.
William Still and His Freedom Stories
William Still and His Freedom Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook William Still and His Freedom Stories write by Don Tate. This book was released on 2020-11-03. William Still and His Freedom Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From award-winning author-illustrator Don Tate comes a remarkable picture book biography of William Still, known as Father of the Underground Railroad. William Still's parents escaped slavery but had to leave two of their children behind, a tragedy that haunted the family. As a young man, William went to work for the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, where he raised money, planned rescues, and helped freedom seekers who had traveled north. One day, a strangely familiar man came into William's office, searching for information about his long-lost family. Could it be? Motivated by his own family's experience, William Still began collecting the stories of thousands of other freedom seekers. As a result, he was able to reunite other families and build a remarkable source of information, including encounters with Harriet Tubman, Henry "Box" Brown, and William and Ellen Craft. Award-winning author-illustrator Don Tate brings to life the incredible, true story of William Still, a man who dedicated his life to recording the stories of enslaved people fleeing to freedom. Tate's powerful words and artwork are sure to inspire young readers in this first-ever picture book biography of the Father of the Underground Railroad.
An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa
An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa write by Alexander Falconbridge. This book was released on 1788. An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
