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Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance
University of Illinois Press, 2013 Cloth: 978-0-252-03804-4 | eISBN: 978-0-252-09589-4 | Paper: 978-0-252-07954-2 Library of Congress Classification F450.L37 2013 Dewey Decimal Classification 973.7115
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This enlightening study employs the tools of archaeology to uncover a new historical perspective on the Underground Railroad. Unlike previous histories of the Underground Railroad, which have focused on frightened fugitive slaves and their benevolent abolitionist accomplices, Cheryl LaRoche focuses instead on free African American communities, the crucial help they provided to individuals fleeing slavery, and the terrain where those flights to freedom occurred.
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Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance
This study foregrounds several small, rural hamlets on the treacherous southern edge of the free North in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. LaRoche demonstrates how landscape features such as waterways, iron forges, and caves played a key role in the conduct and effectiveness of the Underground Railroad. Rich in oral histories, maps, memoirs, and archaeological investigations, this examination of the "geography of resistance" tells the new powerful and inspiring story of African Americans ensuring their own liberation in the midst of oppression.
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University of Illinois Press, 2013
Cloth: 978-0-252-03804-4
eISBN: 978-0-252-09589-4
Paper: 978-0-252-07954-2
Cloth: 978-0-252-03804-4
eISBN: 978-0-252-09589-4
Paper: 978-0-252-07954-2
This enlightening study employs the tools of archaeology to uncover a new historical perspective on the Underground Railroad. Unlike previous histories of the Underground Railroad, which have focused on frightened fugitive slaves and their benevolent abolitionist accomplices, Cheryl LaRoche focuses instead on free African American communities, the crucial help they provided to individuals fleeing slavery, and the terrain where those flights to freedom occurred.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
