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The Liberty Line : The Legend of the Underground Railroad /
Organization spirited floods of slaves away from the South. In contrast to that legend, the slaves themselves had active roles in their own escapes from slave states. They carried out their runs to the North, receiving aid only after they had reached territory where they still faced return under the...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
1996.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Gara, Larry. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Liberty Line : |b The Legend of the Underground Railroad / |c Larry Gara. |
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| 500 | |a Originally published: Lexington : University of Kentucky Press, 1961. With new preface | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 1. The Legendary Railroad -- 2. Slavery and Freedom -- 3. The Road to the North -- 4. A Deep-Laid Scheme -- 5. Friends of the Fugitive -- 6. The Fugitive Issue -- 7. The Roots of a Legend -- 8. Reminiscence and Romance. | |
| 520 | |a Organization spirited floods of slaves away from the South. In contrast to that legend, the slaves themselves had active roles in their own escapes from slave states. They carried out their runs to the North, receiving aid only after they had reached territory where they still faced return under the Fugitive Slave Law. Thus, The Liberty Line places fugitive slaves in their rightful position: the center of their struggle for freedom. | ||
| 520 | |a The underground railroad - with its mysterious signals, secret depots, abolitionist heroes, and slave-hunting villains - has become part of American mythology. But legend has distorted much of the history of this institution, which Larry Gara carefully investigates in this important study. Gara show how pre-Civil War partisan propaganda, postwar reminiscences by fame-hungry abolitionists, and oral tradition helped foster the popular belief that a powerful secret. | ||
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