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UNISA996389896703316 |
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Autore |
Cortés Martín <1532-1589.> |
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The arte of nauigation [[electronic resource] /] / First written in the Spanish tongue by that excellent mariner and mathematician of these times, Martine Curtis . From thence translated into English by Richard Eden: and now newly corrected and inlarged, with many necessarie tables, rules, and instructions, for the more easie attaining to the knowledge of nauigation: by John Tapp |
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London, : Printed [by John Windet] for Iohn Tapp, and are to be sold at his shoppe at S. Magnus Corner., 1609 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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[16], 157 [i.e. 189], [4] p., folded plate : ill. (woodcuts), map |
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Navigation |
Nautical instruments |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Printer's name suggested by STC (2nd ed.). |
Headpieces; initials. |
Irregular pagination. |
Signatures: A-N⁸. |
Imperfect: print show-through with slight loss of text. |
Reproduction of original in: British Library. |
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UNINA9910787209903321 |
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Autore |
Griffler Keith P. |
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Titolo |
Front line of freedom : African Americans and the forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley / / Keith P. Griffler |
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Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2010 |
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©2004 |
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0-8131-3008-5 |
0-8131-4986-X |
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Edizione |
[Paperback edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (188 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Underground Railroad - Ohio River Valley |
Fugitive slaves - Ohio River Valley - History - 19th century |
African Americans - Ohio River Valley - History - 19th century |
Antislavery movements - Ohio River Valley - History - 19th century |
Ohio River Valley History 19th century |
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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 and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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River of slavery, river of freedom -- No promised land -- Home over Jordan -- Band of angels -- Egypt's border -- Prelude to exodus. |
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The Underground Railroad, an often misunderstood antebellum institution, has been viewed as a simple combination of mainly white ""conductors"" and black ""passengers."" Keith P. Griffler takes a new, battlefield-level view of the war against American slavery as he reevaluates one of its front lines: the Ohio River, the longest commercial dividing line between slavery and freedom. In shifting the focus from the much discussed white-led ""stations"" to the primarily black-led frontline struggle along the Ohio, Griffler reveals for the first time the crucial importance of the freedom movement in |
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