1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990004620400403321

Autore

Hornbostel, Wilhelm

Titolo

Sarapis : Studien zur überlieferungsgeschichte, den Erscheinungsformen und Wandlungen der Gestalt eines Gottes / Wilhelm Hornbostel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden : Brill, 1973

Descrizione fisica

XIX, 482 p. 220 tav. : 2 car. ; 25 cm

Collana

Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'empire romain ; 32

Disciplina

937

Locazione

FLFBC

DDR

Collocazione

937 BRILL 30

DDR-XXIV B 001.32

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465031203321

Autore

LaRoche Cheryl Janifer

Titolo

Free Black communities and the Underground Railroad : the geography of resistance / / Cheryl Janifer LaRoche

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, [Illinois] : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-252-09589-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

973.7/115

Soggetti

Underground Railroad - Indiana

Underground Railroad - Illinois

Underground Railroad - Ohio

Fugitive slaves - United States - History

African Americans - History - 19th century

Antislavery movements - United States - History

African Americans - Antiquities

Excavations (Archaeology) - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"In Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad, Cheryl LaRoche brings the tools of archaeology to the study of the Underground Railroad movement. Unlike previous histories of the Underground Railroad, which have focused on frightened fugitive slaves and their benevolent abolitionist accomplices, this study examines the interactions of those fleeing slavery, the Black communities that helped them, and the terrain where their struggles occurred. LaRoche's approach foregrounds the African Americans who were at the forefront of the movement, or "on the front-line of freedom." Small rural pre-Civil War free Black border communities were conduits for escape. As the first points of entry into the treacherous southern regions of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, Black communities in the southernmost



counties bordering the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers were positioned to offer sanctuary to anyone able to escape slavery. LaRoche explores oral family and personal histories, memories, documents, maps, memoirs and archaeological investigations of the historic communities of Rocky Fork and Miller Grove in Illinois, Lick Creek, Indiana, and Poke Patch, Ohio. These untold stories of the Underground Railroad reveal a geography of resistance viewed through local African-American strategies for equal rights and social justice"--

"This enlightening study employs the tools of archaeology to uncover a new historical perspective on the Underground Railroad. Unlike previous histories of the Underground Railroad, which have focused on frightened fugitive slaves and their benevolent abolitionist accomplices, Cheryl LaRoche focuses instead on free African American communities, the crucial help they provided to individuals fleeing slavery, and the terrain where those flights to freedom occurred. This study foregrounds several small, rural hamlets on the treacherous southern edge of the free North in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. LaRoche demonstrates how landscape features such as waterways, iron forges, and caves played a key role in the conduct and effectiveness of the Underground Railroad. Rich in oral histories, maps, memoirs, and archaeological investigations, this examination of the "geography of resistance" tells the new powerful and inspiring story of African Americans ensuring their own liberation in the midst of oppression. "--