The Underground Railroad in Connecticut /
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Middletown, Conn. :
Wesleyan University Press,
1962
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Édition: | [1st ed.]. |
Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Blazing the trail
- 2. Thorny is the pathway
- 3. Fugitives in flight
- 4. The captives of the Amistad
- 5. A house divided
- 6. "This pretended law we cannot obey"
- 7. New Haven, gateway from the sea
- 8. West Connecticut trunk lines
- 9. East Connecticut locals
- 10. Valley line to Hartford
- 11. Middletown, a way station
- 12. Farmington, the Grand Central station
- 13. The road in full swing
- Appendices
- 1. Narrative of Mr. Nehemiah Caulkins of Waterford, Connecticut
- 2. Underground Railroad agents in Connecticut
- 3. Slaves and free negroes in Connecticut, 1639-1860
- 4. Antislavery aocieties in Connecticut, 1837
- 5. Slaves in Connecticut, 1830
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.