Bound for the future : child heroes of the Underground Railroad / / Jonathan Shectman
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| Autore: |
Shectman Jonathan <1972->
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| Titolo: |
Bound for the future : child heroes of the Underground Railroad / / Jonathan Shectman
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| Pubblicazione: | Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Praeger, , c2012 |
| New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2023 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973.7/115 |
| Soggetto topico: | Abolitionists - United States |
| Antislavery movements - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Fugitive slaves - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Underground Railroad | |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 979-84-00-62093-5 |
| 979-82-16-05560-0 | |
| 1-283-54953-0 | |
| 9786613861986 | |
| 0-313-39728-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809367403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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