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Front Line of Freedom : African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley

The Underground Railroad, an often misunderstood antebellum institution, has been viewed as a simple combination of mainly white ""conductors"" and black ""passengers."" Keith P. Griffler takes a new, battlefield-level view of the war against American slavery...

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Autor principal: Griffler, Keith P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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