The Underground Railroad: The Journey to Freedom
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The Underground Railroad: The Journey to Freedom

The Underground Railroad: The Journey to Freedom

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When the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 was passed by Congress, the flight to freedom for runaway slaves became even more dangerous. Even the free cities of Boston and Philadelphia were no longer safe, and abolitionists who despised slavery had to turn in fugitives. But the Underground Railroad, a secret and loosely organized network of people and safe houses that led slaves to freedom, only grew stronger. Since the late 1700s, blacks and whites had banded together to aid runaways like Maryland slave Frederick Douglass, who disguised himself as a sailor to board a train to New York. Virginia slave Henry Brown packed himself in a box to get to Philadelphia. The minister John Rankin, who hung a lantern to guide runaways to his house by the Ohio River, endured beatings for speaking against slavery. Quaker storeowner Thomas Garrett was put on trial for helping fugitives in Delaware. Meanwhile, the nation marched on toward Civil War. At its height, between 1810 and 1850, these secret routes and safe houses were used by an estimated 30,000 people escaping enslavement. In ""The Underground Railroad: The Journey to Freedom"", read how this secret system worked in the days leading up to the Civil War and the pivotal role it played in the Abolitionist movement. full-colour & black-&-white photographs, bibliographical sidebars, excerpts from primary source documents, chronology, timeline, bibliography, further reading, footnotes, index
Ann Malaspina began her career as a newspaper reporter in Boston, where she wrote about immigrant issues, tenant rights, and poverty. Those stories sparked her interest in people on the margins of society and their battle for recognition and equal rights. She is the author of The Ethnic and Group Identity Movements in the Chelsea House series Reform Movements in American History.
  • Imprint: Chelsea House Publishers
  • ISBN13: 9781604136944
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers
  • Release Date: 2010-02-28
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Ann Malaspina began her career as a newspaper reporter in Boston, where she wrote about immigrant issues, tenant rights, and poverty. Those stories sparked her interest in people on the margins of society and their battle for recognition and equal rights. She is the author of The Ethnic and Group Identity Movements in the Chelsea House series Reform Movements in American History.

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