Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Uncertain freedom in frontier Detroit / Veta Smith Tucker
  • Forging transnational networks for freedom / Karolyn Smarz Frost
  • The illusion of safety: attempts to extradite fugitive slaves from Canada / Bryan Prince
  • Canadian black settlements in the Detroit River region / Irene Moore Davis
  • Worship way stations in Detroit / Barbara Hughes Smith
  • Extending the right hand of fellowship: Sandwich Baptist Church, Amherstburg First Baptist, and the Amherstburg Baptist Association / Adrienne Shadd
  • The Voice of the Fugitive: a transnational abolitionist organ / Afua Cooper
  • A community militant and organized: the Colored Vigilant Committee of Detroit / Roy Finkenbine
  • I am going straight to Canada: women underground railroad activists in the Detroit River border zone / Margaret Washington
  • Bridging rivers: Caroline Quarlls's remarkable journey / Kimberly Simmons and Larry McClellan
  • One more river to cross: the Crosswhites' escapes from slavery / Debian Marty
  • The McCoys: charting freedom from both sides of the river / Carol E. Mull
  • The useful frontier: John Brown's Detroit River preface to the Harper's Ferry raid / Louis A. Decaro, Jr.