The Underground railroad in Connecticut / / Horatio T. Strother
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Autore: |
Strother Horatio T.
|
| Titolo: |
The Underground railroad in Connecticut / / Horatio T. Strother
|
| Pubblicazione: | Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , [1962] |
| ©1962 | |
| Edizione: | [1st ed.]. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (281 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973.7115 |
| Soggetto geografico: | Connecticut |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Blazing the trail -- 2. Thorny is the pathway -- 3. Fugitives in flight -- 4. The captives of the Amistad -- 5. A house divided -- 6. "This pretended law we cannot obey" -- 7. New Haven, gateway from the sea -- 8. West Connecticut trunk lines -- 9. East Connecticut locals -- 10. Valley line to Hartford -- 11. Middletown, a way station -- 12. Farmington, the Grand Central station -- 13. The road in full swing -- Appendices -- 1. Narrative of Mr. Nehemiah Caulkins of Waterford, Connecticut -- 2. Underground Railroad agents in Connecticut -- 3. Slaves and free negroes in Connecticut, 1639-1860 -- 4. Antislavery aocieties in Connecticut, 1837 -- 5. Slaves in Connecticut, 1830 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The story of a ""railroad"" shrouded in secrecy |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Underground railroad in Connecticut |
| ISBN: | 0-8195-7296-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813302903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |