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Bound for the future [[electronic resource] ] : child heroes of the Underground Railroad / / Jonathan Shectman



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Autore: Shectman Jonathan <1972-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Bound for the future [[electronic resource] ] : child heroes of the Underground Railroad / / Jonathan Shectman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Santa Barbara, Calif., : Praeger, c2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 p.)
Disciplina: 973.7/115
Soggetto topico: Underground Railroad
Fugitive slaves - United States - History - 19th century
Antislavery movements - United States - History - 19th century
Abolitionists - United States
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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?""
Titolo autorizzato: Bound for the future  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-54953-0
9786613861986
0-313-39728-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910462230903321
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