The liberty line : the legend of the underground railroad /

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Author / Creator:Gara, Larry.
Imprint:Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
Description:xiv, 201 pages ; 22 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13182181
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ISBN:0813108640
9780813108643
Notes:Originally published: Lexington : University of Kentucky Press, 1961. With new pref.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
committed to retain from JKM Seminaries Library 2023 JKM University of Chicago Library
Summary: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.
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.
Other form:Online version: Gara, Larry. Liberty line. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1996
Online version: Gara, Larry. Liberty line. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1996

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