The Underground Railroad in Connecticut /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Strother, Horatio T.
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 1962
Edition:[1st ed.].
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Underground Railroad > Connecticut.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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