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History Of The Underground Railroad In Chester And The Neighboring Counties Of Pennsylvania
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Book Synopsis History of the Underground Railroad by : R. C. Smedley
Download or read book History of the Underground Railroad written by R. C. Smedley and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Reprint of a significant primary source on the Underground Railroad • Colorful information and anecdotes from the participants Originally published in 1883 and long out of print, this remarkable volume examines the Underground Railroad as it operated in southeastern Pennsylvania. Based on interviews with those directly involved in the escaped slave network, it tells the stories of freedom seekers, those who helped them, and the places they hid. A new introduction by Christopher Densmore places the book in its historical context and assesses the work in light of more recent scholarship.
Book Synopsis History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania (Classic Reprint) by : Robert Clemens Smedley
Download or read book History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania (Classic Reprint) written by Robert Clemens Smedley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania It is with feelings of much gratification that he is able to present to the readers the portraits of many of the leading men and women who were actively engaged in the Underground Railroad, who dared to open their houses to the fugitive slave, and to do unto him as they would be done by. With the exception of a few cuts, furnished through the kindness of William Still, all have been engraved expressly for this work from the best likenesses in the possession of the families. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Just Over the Line by : William C. Kashatus
Download or read book Just Over the Line written by William C. Kashatus and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania - Scholar's Choice Edition by : Robert Clemens Smedley
Download or read book History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania - Scholar's Choice Edition written by Robert Clemens Smedley and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America by : Robert H. Churchill
Download or read book The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America written by Robert H. Churchill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new interpretation of the Underground Railroad that places violence at the center of the story.
Book Synopsis Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania by : William J. Switala
Download or read book Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania written by William J. Switala and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes detailed maps of the known routes and railroad sites. Organized in antebellum America to help slaves escape to freedom, the Underground Railroad was cloaked in secrecy and operated at great peril to everyone involved. The system was extremely active in Pennsylvania, with routes in all parts of the state.This book retraces those routes, discusses the large city networks, identifies the houses and sites where escapees found refuge, and records the names of the people who risked their lives to support the operation.
Book Synopsis Negro Slavery Unjustifiable by : Alexander M'Leod
Download or read book Negro Slavery Unjustifiable written by Alexander M'Leod and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Abolition & the Underground Railroad in Chester County, Pennsylvania by : Mark Lanyon
Download or read book Abolition & the Underground Railroad in Chester County, Pennsylvania written by Mark Lanyon and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chester County was home to a diverse patchwork of religious communities, antislavery activists and free Black populations, all working to end the blight of slavery ... Author Mark Lanyon captures the rich history of antislavery activity that transformed Chester County into a vital region in the nation's fight for freedom."--Back cover.
Download or read book The Liberty Line written by Larry Gara and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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.
Book Synopsis The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom by : Wilbur Henry Siebert
Download or read book The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom written by Wilbur Henry Siebert and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1898, this comprehensive history was the first documented survey of a system that helped fugitive slaves escape from areas in the antebellum South to regions as far north as Canada. Comprising fifty years of research, the text includes interviews and excerpts from diaries, letters, biographies, memoirs, speeches, and a large number of other firsthand accounts. Together, they shed much light on the origins of a system that provided aid to runaway slaves, including the degree of formal organization within the movement, methods of procedure, geographical range, leadership roles, the effectiveness of Canadian settlements, and the attitudes of courts and communities toward former slaves.
Book Synopsis The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania by : Charles L. Blockson
Download or read book The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania written by Charles L. Blockson and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chariot on the Mountain by : Jack Ford
Download or read book Chariot on the Mountain written by Jack Ford and published by Kensington. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on little-known true events, this astonishing account from Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist Jack Ford vividly recreates a treacherous journey toward freedom, a time when the traditions of the Old South still thrived—and is a testament to determination, friendship, and courage . . . Two decades before the Civil War, a middle-class farmer named Samuel Maddox lies on his deathbed. Elsewhere in his Virginia home, a young woman named Kitty knows her life is about to change. She is one of the Maddox family’s slaves—and Samuel’s biological daughter. When Samuel’s wife, Mary, inherits her husband’s property, she will own Kitty, too, along with Kitty’s three small children. Already in her fifties and with no children of her own, Mary Maddox has struggled to accept her husband’s daughter, a strong-willed, confident, educated woman who works in the house and has been treated more like family than slave. After Samuel’s death, Mary decides to grant Kitty and her children their freedom, and travels with them to Pennsylvania, where she will file papers declaring Kitty’s emancipation. Helped on their perilous flight by Quaker families along the Underground Railroad, they finally reach the free state. But Kitty is not yet safe. Dragged back to Virginia by a gang of slave catchers led by Samuel’s own nephew, who is determined to sell her and her children, Kitty takes a defiant step: charging the younger Maddox with kidnapping and assault. On the surface, the move is brave yet hopeless. But Kitty has allies—her former mistress, Mary, and Fanny Withers, a rich and influential socialite who is persuaded to adopt Kitty’s cause and uses her resources and charm to secure a lawyer. The sensational trial that follows will decide the fate of Kitty and her children—and bond three extraordinary yet very different women together in their quest for justice.
Book Synopsis William Still by : William C. Kashatus
Download or read book William Still written by William C. Kashatus and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length biography of William Still, one of the most important leaders of the Underground Railroad. William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia is the first major biography of the free Black abolitionist William Still, who coordinated the Eastern Line of the Underground Railroad and was a pillar of the Railroad as a whole. Based in Philadelphia, Still built a reputation as a courageous leader, writer, philanthropist, and guide for fugitive enslaved people. This monumental work details Still’s life story beginning with his parents’ escape from bondage in the early nineteenth century and continuing through his youth and adulthood as one of the nation’s most important Underground Railroad agents and, later, as an early civil rights pioneer. Still worked personally with Harriet Tubman, assisted the family of John Brown, helped Brown’s associates escape from Harper’s Ferry after their famous raid, and was a rival to Frederick Douglass among nationally prominent African American abolitionists. Still’s life story is told in the broader context of the anti-slavery movement, Philadelphia Quaker and free black history, and the generational conflict that occurred between Still and a younger group of free black activists led by Octavius Catto. Unique to this book is an accessible and detailed database of the 995 fugitives Still helped escape from the South to the North and Canada between 1853 and 1861. The database contains twenty different fields—including name, age, gender, skin color, date of escape, place of origin, mode of transportation, and literacy—and serves as a valuable aid for scholars by offering the opportunity to find new information, and therefore a new perspective, on runaway enslaved people who escaped on the Eastern Line of the Underground Railroad. Based on Still’s own writings and a multivariate statistical analysis of the database of the runaways he assisted on their escape to freedom, the book challenges previously accepted interpretations of the Underground Railroad. The audience for William Still is a diverse one, including scholars and general readers interested in the history of the anti-slavery movement and the operation of the Underground Railroad, as well as genealogists tracing African American ancestors.
Book Synopsis Just Over the Line by : William C. Kashatus
Download or read book Just Over the Line written by William C. Kashatus and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the exciting tales of the legendary Underground Railroad in Chester County, Pennsylvania, an area on the front lines of the antebellum struggle over slavery and black freedom. Examines the spectrum of opinion among Quakers, the prominence of black activists, and the interracial cooperation essential to the Underground Railroad's success.
Book Synopsis History of Chester County, Pennsylvania by : J. Smith Futhey
Download or read book History of Chester County, Pennsylvania written by J. Smith Futhey and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A North-side View of Slavery by : Benjamin Drew
Download or read book A North-side View of Slavery written by Benjamin Drew and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Underground Railroad by : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Download or read book The Underground Railroad written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a look at the network known as the Underground Railroad - that mysterious "system" of individuals and organizations that helped slaves escape the American South to freedom during the years before the Civil War. This work also explores the people, places, writings, laws, and organizations that made this network possible.
