Runaway Slaves / Karin Coddon, book editor.
Record details
- ISBN: 0737713429 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0737713437 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: 224 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: San Diego : Greenhaven Press, [2004]
- Copyright: ©2004
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-218) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The perils of recounting escape stories / by Frederick Douglass -- How the railroad operated / by Charles A. Garlick -- Toward a new life in Canada / by James Adams -- Eluding the slave patrols / by Francis Henderson -- An unusual escape / by Henry "Box" Brown -- A secret hiding place / by Harriet Jacobs -- A lie that leads to freedom / by Moses Roper -- A daring disguise / by William and Ellen Craft -- A failed escape / by William Wells Brown -- Boston protests the return of Anthony Burns to slavery / by Charlotte Forten -- The tragedy of Margaret Garner / by Levi Coffin -- Accused of helping runaway slaves / by William Still -- An angry crown rescues a captive fugitive slave / by Sarah H. Bradford -- A friend of the slaves / by Levi Coffin -- The Underground Railroad in the Midwest / by Laura S. Haviland -- Making the case for freedom / by Thomas Garrett -- The trial of a Quaker hero / by Harriet Beecher Stowe -- The Fugitive Slave Act / by the U.S. Congress -- The Fugitive Slave Act is just / by Daniel Webster -- A fugitive seems to recant / by the Buffalo commercial advertiser, the Buffalo morning express, and the New York daily tribune -- The abduction of a free black man / by Solomon Northup. |
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Loogootee PL - Loogootee | 973.7 COD (Text) | 70511000032251 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
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