Passage On The Underground Railroad
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Passages To Freedom
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Author : David W. Blight
language : en
Publisher: Smithsonian Inst Press
Release Date : 2004
Passages To Freedom written by David W. Blight and has been published by Smithsonian Inst Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Looks at the history of the Underground Railroad, including the hiding places, the routes, way stations, the role of American Indians, and border crossings into Mexico and the Caribbean.
Passage On The Underground Railroad
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2008
Passage On The Underground Railroad written by and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
A photographer's evocative interpretation of the history and places along the slave's path to freedom
Passages To Freedom
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Author : David Blight
language : en
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Release Date : 2006-01-24
Passages To Freedom written by David Blight and has been published by Harper Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-24 with History categories.
Few things have defined America as much as slavery. In the wake of emancipation the story of the Underground Railroad has become a seemingly irresistible part of American historical consciousness. This stirring drama is one Americans have needed to tell and retell and pass on to their children. But just how much of the Underground Railroad is real, how much legend and mythology, how much invention? Passages to Freedom sets out to answer this question and place it within the context of slavery, emancipation, and its aftermath. Published on the occasion of the opening of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, Passages to Freedom brings home the reality of slavery's destructiveness. This distinguished yet accessible volume offers a galvanizing look at how the brave journey out of slavery both haunts and inspires us today.
The Underground Railroad
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Author : Colson Whitehead
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-10-06
The Underground Railroad written by Colson Whitehead and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-06 with Fiction categories.
NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES BY BARRY JENKINS (COMING MAY 2021) WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016 'Whitehead is on a roll: the reviews have been sublime' Guardian 'Luminous, furious, wildly inventive' Observer 'Hands down one of the best, if not the best, book I've read this year' Stylist 'Dazzling' New York Review of Books Praised by Barack Obama and an Oprah Book Club Pick, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award 2016 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But its placid surface masks an infernal scheme designed for its unknowing black inhabitants. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher sent to find Cora, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. At each stop on her journey, Cora encounters a different world. As Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America, from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once the story of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shatteringly powerful meditation on history.
The Underground Rail Road
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Author : William Still
language : en
Publisher: Philadelphia : Porter & Coates
Release Date : 1872
The Underground Rail Road written by William Still and has been published by Philadelphia : Porter & Coates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1872 with Abolitionists categories.
"Historically significant document by Still, a free-born Black man who became an author and abolitionist movement leader in Philadelphia, PA. The volume document the stories of escaped slaves, and remains "the only first-person account of Black activities on the Underground Railroad written and self-published by an African-America...William Still was a major contributor to the success of the Underground Railroad activities in Philadelphia and a part of Philadelphia's free Black community that played an essential role in the Underground Railroad. He personally provide room and board for many African Americans who escaped slavery and stopped in Philadelphia on their way to Canada. Through his work with the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery's Vigilance Committee, he raised funds to assist runaways and arrange their passage to the North. He was instrumental in financing several of Harriet Tubman's trips to the South to liberate enslaved Africans" (Turner, Diane D. "William Still's National Significance." Web blog post. William Still: African American Abolitionist. Temple University, n.d. 18 August, 2016)." --description from Lorne Bair Rare Books Inc., bookseller.
The Other Middle Passage
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Author : Kristen Lynne Harbeson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Other Middle Passage written by Kristen Lynne Harbeson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Slavery categories.
Through Darkness To Light
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Author : Jeanine Michna-Bales
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2017-03-28
Through Darkness To Light written by Jeanine Michna-Bales and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-28 with Photography categories.
They left in the middle of the night—often carrying little more than the knowledge to follow the North Star. Between 1830 and the end of the Civil War in 1865, an estimated one hundred thousand slaves became passengers on the Underground Railroad, a journey of untold hardship, in search of freedom. In Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad, Jeanine Michna-Bales presents a remarkable series of images following a route from the cotton plantations of central Louisiana, through the cypress swamps of Mississippi and the plains of Indiana, north to the Canadian border— a path of nearly fourteen hundred miles. The culmination of a ten-year research quest, Through Darkness to Light imagines a journey along the Underground Railroad as it might have appeared to any freedom seeker. Framing the powerful visual narrative is an introduction by Michna-Bales; a foreword by noted politician, pastor, and civil rights activist Andrew J. Young; and essays by Fergus M. Bordewich, Robert F. Darden, and Eric R. Jackson.
The Underground Railroad
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Author : Michael Burgan
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2006
The Underground Railroad written by Michael Burgan and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Describes the system by which black slaves escaped captivity in the southern United States.
Train Without Tracks
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Author : William F. Bell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-10-01
Train Without Tracks written by William F. Bell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-01 with Coloring books categories.
Developed with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, the book depicts this amazing passage in American history, when people of different races, religions and regions worked together to help enslaved African Americans reach a life of a freedom. Featuring prints of paintings from the Smithsonian exhibit by award-winning artist Janice Northcutt Huse.
Old Passages Of Boston S Underground Railroad
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Author : Allen Chamberlain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1926
Old Passages Of Boston S Underground Railroad written by Allen Chamberlain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1926 with Antislavery movements categories.