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Autore |
Calarco Tom <1947-> |
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Titolo |
People of the Underground Railroad [[electronic resource] ] : a biographical dictionary / / Tom Calarco |
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Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-42001-1 |
9786612420016 |
0-313-08596-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (409 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Underground Railroad |
Abolitionists - United States |
African American abolitionists |
Fugitive enslaved persons - United States |
Antislavery movements - United States - History - 19th century |
Electronic books. |
United States History 1783-1865 Biography Dictionaries |
United States Biography Dictionaries |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-341) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Alphabetical List of Entries; List of Entries by State or Country; List of Entries by Role or Profession; List of Sidebars; Preface; Introduction; Timeline of the Underground Railroad; Map of the Underground Railroad; Biographical Dictionary; Selected Bibliography; Index by State of People Who Aided Fugitive Slaves; Index to Places That Aided Fugitive Slaves; Index; About the Author and Contributors |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This volume is the largest in-depth collection of profiles of those individuals involved in the spiriting of black slaves to freedom in the northern states and Canada beginning around 1800 and lasting to the early Civil War years. |
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