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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809367403321

Autore

Shectman Jonathan <1972->

Titolo

Bound for the future : child heroes of the Underground Railroad / / Jonathan Shectman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Praeger, , c2012

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2023

ISBN

979-84-00-62093-5

979-82-16-05560-0

1-283-54953-0

9786613861986

0-313-39728-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

973.7/115

Soggetti

Abolitionists - United States

Antislavery movements - United States - History - 19th century

Fugitive slaves - United States - History - 19th century

Underground Railroad

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 (p. 201-208) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; PART I: Radical, Young, and Quaker: Child Pioneers of the Underground; Chapter 1 The Dictates of Humanity; Chapter 2 Knowledge Unfits a Child to Be a Slave; Chapter 3 Ran Away from the Subscriber; Chapter 4 Tell Them I Love Them All; PART II: Up Like Bucks: The Line through Ripley; Chapter 5 Let Not the Sun Go Down on Your Anger, My Boy; Chapter 6 Up Like Bucks: The Rankin Boys; Chapter 7 States of Matter Divide the States; PART III: Taking Their Freedom: Young Free Blacks and Fugitive Children; Chapter 8 Deeds of Bold Daring

Chapter 9 Many Years under the YokeChapter 10 The Conductor Was, Himself, Presently Enslaved; Epilogue: Slavery in Our Time; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

Through careful, detailed consideration of a host of primary documents



about the young activists who formed the Underground Railroad's underappreciated operational workforce, this book offers fresh insight to the complex question, ""Who ended slavery?""