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From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge

Author : Brian Martin
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1778520111
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (785 download)

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Download or read book From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge written by Brian Martin and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with engaging stories and astonishing facts, From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge examines the role of Canadians in the American Civil War Despite all we know about the Civil War, its causes, battles, characters, issues, impacts, and legacy, few books have explored Canada’s role in the bloody conflict that claimed more than 600,000 lives. A surprising 20 thousand Canadians went south to take up arms on both sides of the conflict, while thousands of enslaved people, draft dodgers, deserters, recruiters, plotters, and spies fled northward to take shelter in the attic that is Canada. Though many escaped slavery and found safety through the Underground Railroad, they were later joined by KKK members wanted for murder. Confederate President Jefferson Davis along with several of his emissaries and generals found refuge on Canadian soil, and many plantation owners moved north of the border. Award-winning journalist Brian Martin will open eyes in both Canada and the United States about how the two countries and their citizens interacted during the Civil War and the troubled times that surrounded it.

From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge

Author : Brian Gordon Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781039597709
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge written by Brian Gordon Martin and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Filled with engaging stories and astonishing facts, From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge examines the role of Canadians in the American Civil War Despite all we know about the Civil War, its causes, battles, characters, issues, impacts, and legacy, few books have explored Canada's role in the bloody conflict that claimed more than 600,000 lives. A surprising 20 thousand Canadians went south to take up arms on both sides of the conflict, while thousands of enslaved people, draft dodgers, deserters, recruiters, plotters, and spies fled northward to take shelter in the attic that is Canada. Though many escaped slavery and found safety through the Underground Railroad, they were later joined by KKK members wanted for murder. Confederate President Jefferson Davis along with several of his emissaries and generals found refuge on Canadian soil, and many plantation owners moved north of the border. Award-winning journalist Brian Martin will open eyes in both Canada and the United States about how the two countries and their citizens interacted during the Civil War and the troubled times that surrounded it."--

Pickett's Charge

Author : Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1634508025
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Pickett's Charge written by Phillip Thomas Tucker and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Main Selection of the History Book Club The Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War’s turning point, produced over 57,000 casualties, the largest number from the entire war that was itself America’s bloodiest conflict. On the third day of fierce fighting, Robert E. Lee’s attempt to invade the North came to a head in Pickett’s Charge. The infantry assault, consisting of nine brigades of soldiers in a line that stretched for over a mile, resulted in casualties of over 50 percent for the Confederates and a huge psychological blow to Southern morale. Pickett’s Charge is a detailed analysis of one of the most iconic and defining events in American history. This book presents a much-needed fresh look, including the unvarnished truths and ugly realities, about the unforgettable story. With the luxury of hindsight, historians have long denounced the folly of Lee’s attack, but this work reveals the tactical brilliance of a master plan that went awry. Special emphasis is placed on the common soldiers on both sides, especially the non-Virginia attackers outside of Pickett’s Virginia Division. These fighters’ moments of cowardice, failure, and triumph are explored using their own words from primary and unpublished sources. Without romance and glorification, the complexities and contradictions of the dramatic story of Pickett's Charge have been revealed in full to reveal this most pivotal moment in the nation’s life. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

South to Freedom

Author : Alice L Baumgartner
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541617770
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book South to Freedom written by Alice L Baumgartner and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery was abolished in 1837. In South to Freedom, historianAlice L. Baumgartner tells the story of why Mexico abolished slavery and how its increasingly radical antislavery policies fueled the sectional crisis in the United States. Southerners hoped that annexing Texas and invading Mexico in the 1840s would stop runaways and secure slavery's future. Instead, the seizure of Alta California and Nuevo México upset the delicate political balance between free and slave states. This is a revelatory and essential new perspective on antebellum America and the causes of the Civil War.

Freedom Train North

Author : Julia Pferdehirt
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870204742
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Freedom Train North written by Julia Pferdehirt and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People running from slavery made many hard journeys to find freedom—on steamboats and in carriages, across rivers and in hay-covered wagons. Some were shot at. Many were chased by slave catchers. Others hid in tunnels and secret rooms. But these troubles were worth it for the men, women, and children who eventually reached freedom. Freedom Train North tells the stories of fugitive slaves who found help in Wisconsin. Young readers (ages 7 to 12) will meet people like Joshua Glover, who was broken out of jail by a mob of freedom workers in Milwaukee, and Jacob Green, who escaped five times before he finally made it to freedom. This compelling book also introduces stories of the strangers who hid fugitive slaves and helped them on their way, brave men and women who broke the law to do what was right. As both a historian and a storyteller, author Julia Pferdehirt shares these exciting and important stories of a dangerous time in Wisconsin’s past. Using manuscripts, letters, and artifacts from the period, as well as stories passed down from one generation to another, Pferdehirt takes us deep into our state’s past, challenging and inspiring us with accounts of courage and survival.

Troubled Refuge

Author : Chandra Manning
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307456374
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Troubled Refuge written by Chandra Manning and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army’s escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States. Chandra Manning casts in a wholly original light what it was like to escape slavery, how emancipation happened, and how citizenship in the United States was transformed. This reshaping of hard structures of power would matter not only for slaves turned citizens, but for all Americans. Integrating a wealth of new findings, this vivid portrait of the Union army’s escaped-slave refugee camps shows how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States. Drawing on records of the Union and Confederate armies, the letters and diaries of soldiers, transcribed testimonies of former slaves, and more, Manning allows us to accompany the black men, women, and children who sought out the Union army in hopes of achieving autonomy for themselves and their communities. It also raised, for the first time, humanitarian questions about refugees in wartime and legal questions about civil and military authority with which we still wrestle, as well as redefined American citizenship, to the benefit, but also to the lasting cost of, African Americans.

The Ku Klux Klan in Canada

Author : Allan Bartley
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 1459506146
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book The Ku Klux Klan in Canada written by Allan Bartley and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ku Klux Klan came to Canada thanks to some energetic American promoters who saw it as a vehicle for getting rich by selling memberships to white, mostly Protestant Canadians. In Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, the Klan found fertile ground for its message of racism and discrimination targeting African Canadians, Jews and Catholics. While its organizers fought with each other to capture the funds received from enthusiastic members, the Klan was a venue for expressions of race hatred and a cover for targeted acts of harassment and violence against minorities. Historian Allan Bartley traces the role of the Klan in Canadian political life in the turbulent years of the 1920s and 1930s, after which its membership waned. But in the 1970s, as he relates, small extremist right- wing groups emerged in urban Canada, and sought to revive the Klan as a readily identifiable identity for hatred and racism. The Ku Klux Klan in Canada tells the little-known story of how Canadians adopted the image and ideology of the Klan to express the racism that has played so large a role in Canadian society for the past hundred years — right up to the present.

Underground Railroad

Author : Linda Russo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Underground Railroad written by Linda Russo and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Underground Railroad

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Underground Railroad written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Underground Railroad

Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780788146572
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book The Underground Railroad written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study by the National Park Service on how to best interpret & commemorate the Underground Railroad, emphasizing the approximate routes taken by slaves escaping to freedom before the Civil War. Findings: the Underground Railroad story is nationally significant; a few elements of the story are represented in existing National Park Service units & other sites, but many important resource types are not adequately represented & protected; many sites remain that meet established criteria for designation as national historic landmarks; many sites are in imminent danger of being lost or destroyed, etc. Illustrated.

My Brother Slaves

Author : Sergio Lussana
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813166969
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book My Brother Slaves written by Sergio Lussana and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trapped in a world of brutal physical punishment and unremitting, back-breaking labor, Frederick Douglass mused that it was the friendships he shared with other enslaved men that carried him through his darkest days. In this pioneering study, Sergio A. Lussana offers the first in-depth investigation of the social dynamics between enslaved men and examines how individuals living under the conditions of bondage negotiated masculine identities. He demonstrates that African American men worked to create their own culture through a range of recreational pursuits similar to those enjoyed by their white counterparts, such as drinking, gambling, fighting, and hunting. Underscoring the enslaved men's relationships, however, were the sex-segregated work gangs on the plantations, which further reinforced their social bonds. Lussana also addresses male resistance to slavery by shifting attention from the visible, organized world of slave rebellion to the private realms of enslaved men's lives. He reveals how these men developed an oppositional community in defiance of the regulations of the slaveholder and shows that their efforts were intrinsically linked to forms of resistance on a larger scale. The trust inherent in these private relationships was essential in driving conversations about revolution. My Brother Slaves fills a vital gap in our contemporary understanding of southern history and of the effects that the South's peculiar institution had on social structures and gender expression. Employing detailed research that draws on autobiographies of and interviews with former slaves, Lussana's work artfully testifies to the importance of social relationships between enslaved men and the degree to which these fraternal bonds encouraged them to resist.

After Appomattox

Author : Gregory P. Downs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674241622
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book After Appomattox written by Gregory P. Downs and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Original and revelatory.” —David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass Avery O. Craven Award Finalist A Civil War Memory/Civil War Monitor Best Book of the Year In April 1865, Robert E. Lee wrote to Ulysses S. Grant asking for peace. Peace was beyond his authority to negotiate, Grant replied, but surrender terms he would discuss. The distinction proved prophetic. After Appomattox reveals that the Civil War did not end with Confederate capitulation in 1865. Instead, a second phase of the war began which lasted until 1871—not the project euphemistically called Reconstruction, but a state of genuine belligerence whose mission was to shape the peace. Using its war powers, the U.S. Army oversaw an ambitious occupation, stationing tens of thousands of troops in outposts across the defeated South. This groundbreaking history shows that the purpose of the occupation was to crush slavery in the face of fierce and violent resistance, but there were limits to its effectiveness: the occupying army never really managed to remake the South. “The United States Army has been far too neglected as a player—a force—in the history of Reconstruction... Downs wants his work to speak to the present, and indeed it should.” —David W. Blight, The Atlantic “Striking... Downs chronicles...a military occupation that was indispensable to the uprooting of slavery.” —Boston Globe “Downs makes the case that the final end to slavery, and the establishment of basic civil and voting rights for all Americans, was ‘born in the face of bayonets.’ ...A remarkable, necessary book.” —Slate

God and Caesar at the Rio Grande

Author : Hilary Cunningham
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816624577
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book God and Caesar at the Rio Grande written by Hilary Cunningham and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author offers a fascinating account of the history and growth of the Sanctuary Movement, as she demonstrates how religion shapes and is shaped by political culture. Focusing on the Sanctuary located in Tucson, Arizona, she explores the movement primarily through the experiences of everyday participants conveyed through interviews with Sanctuary workers as well as reproductions of documents from her stays in Arizona, Mexico, and Guatemala.

Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad

Author : Levi Coffin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad written by Levi Coffin and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman

Author : Sarah Hopkins Bradford
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman written by Sarah Hopkins Bradford and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1869 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman: By SARAH H. BRADFORD. [Special Illustrated Edition]

The Story of the Underground Railroad

Author : Kaavonia Hinton
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
ISBN 13 : 1545749450
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Underground Railroad written by Kaavonia Hinton and published by Mitchell Lane. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one really knows when the Underground Railroad began, but we do know this network of blacks, whites, Native Americans, and others helped thousands of escapees reach free land. Find out about the secret world of conductors, agents, and stations that helped enslaved people in North America gain freedom, from the mid 1600s through the end of the Civil War.

Susan B. Anthony. Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian

Author : Alma Lutz
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Susan B. Anthony. Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian written by Alma Lutz and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Susan B. Anthony: Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian' by Alma Lutz, the reader is presented with a comprehensive exploration of the life and legacy of one of the most influential figures in the women's suffrage movement. Lutz skillfully weaves together historical facts with insightful analysis, offering a vivid portrayal of the challenges faced by Anthony in her fight for gender equality. The book is written in a compelling and engaging style, making it accessible to both academic and general readers. Lutz's meticulous research contributes to a deeper understanding of the social and political context in which Anthony operated, shedding light on her motivations and strategies for social change. The book also delves into Anthony's impact on subsequent generations of feminists and social activists, cementing her place in history as a true trailblazer for women's rights.