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Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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Contains selected narratives from Levi Coffin and William Still, noted contemporary chroniclers of the Underground Railroad and provides information on the slave routes and safe houses that dotted both the South and the North, the impact on the slaves, and the abolitionist movement .
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Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When John Brown decided to raid the federal armory in Harper’s Ferry as the starting point of his intended liberation effort in the South, some closest to him thought it was unnecessary and dangerous. Frederick Douglass, a pioneering abolitionist, refused Brown’s invitation to join him in Virginia, believing that the raid on the armory was a suicide mission. Yet in front of Douglass, “Emperor” Shields Green, a fugitive from South Carolina,...
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Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Samuel Ringgold Ward (1817-c. 1869) escaped enslavement and would become a leading figure in the struggle for Black freedom, citizenship, and equality. He was extolled by his contemporary Frederick Douglass for his "depth of thought, fluency of speech, readiness of wit, logical exactness." Until now, his story has been largely untold. Ward, a newspaper editor, Congregational minister, and advocate for the temperance...
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Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"An new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to the Reconstruction curated by the Schomburg Center, that makes the case for focusing on the histories of Black people as agents and architects of their own lives and ultimate liberation, with a foreword by Kevin Young. This is the first Penguin Classics anthology published in partnership with the Schomburg Center, a world-renowned cultural institution documenting black life in America and...
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