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Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad : the Geography of Resistance /

"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 fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: LaRoche, Cheryl Janifer
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2014.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Free black communities. Rocky Fork, Illinois : oral tradition as memory ; Miller Grove, Illinois : linking a free black community to the Underground Railroad ; Lick Creek, Indiana : a Quaker connection ; Poke Patch, Ohio : a different route
  • Part II: Geographies of resistance. The geography of resistance ; Rethinking African American migration
  • Part III: Family, faith, and fraternity. Family, church, community : pillars of the black Underground Railroad movement ; Faith and fraternity ; Destination freedom
  • Appendix: Ministers chart.