A History of the Enslaved Fugitive and the Underground Railroad as it Relates to New Albany-Floyd County, Indiana
Author: Pamela R. Peters
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 185
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Author: Pamela R. Peters
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 185
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Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2017-07-06
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0786450622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFloyd County, Indiana, and its county seat, New Albany, are located directly across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky. Louisville was a major slave-trade center, and Indiana was a free state. Many slaves fled to Floyd County via the Underground Railroad, but their fight for freedom did not end once they reached Indiana. Sufficient information on slaves coming to and through this important area may be found in court records, newspaper stories, oral history accounts, and other materials that a full and fascinating history is possible, one detailing the struggles that runaway slaves faced in Floyd County, such as local, state, and federal laws working together to keep them from advancing socially, politically, and economically. This work also discusses the attitudes, people, and places that help in explaining the successes and heartaches of escaping slaves in Floyd County. Included are a number of freedom and manumission papers, which provided court certification of the freedom of former slaves.
Author: William Monroe Cockrum
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 364
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistory of the Underground railroad in Indiana.
Author: Michael Burgan
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 1438106548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the system by which black slaves escaped captivity in the southern United States.
Author: Eber M. Pettit
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 186
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains a multitude of wonderful stories that weave together a picture of life in the South in the 1800s and the fear and courage of those that participated in helping thousands of people escape slavery. The work also includes chapters on the politics of the time, and the oft-times contradictory laws that were passed.
Author: Ann Malaspina
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1438131291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 was passed by Congress, the flight to freedom for runaway slaves became even more dangerous. Even the free cities of Boston and Philadelphia were no longer safe, and abolitionists who despised slavery had to turn in fugitives. But the Underground Railroad, a secret and loosely organized network of people and safe houses that led slaves to freedom, only grew stronger. Since the late 1700s, blacks and whites had banded together to aid runaways like Maryland slave Frederick Douglass, who disguised himself as a sailor to board a train to New York. Virginia slave Henry Brown packed himself in a box to get to Philadelphia. The minister John Rankin, who hung a lantern to guide runaways to his house by the Ohio River, endured beatings for speaking against slavery. Quaker storeowner Thomas Garrett was put on trial for helping fugitives in Delaware. Meanwhile, the nation marched on toward Civil War. At its height, between 1810 and 1850, these secret routes and safe houses were used by an estimated 30,000 people escaping enslavement. In The Underground Railroad: The Journey to Freedom, read how this secret system worked in the days leading up to the Civil War and the pivotal role it played in the abolitionist movement.
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 134
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe counties concerned are Lake, Porter, LaPorte, St. Joseph, Wabash, Huntington, Grant.
Author: William Still
Publisher: Philadelphia : Porter & Coates
Published: 1872
Total Pages: 842
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Historically significant document by Still, a free-born Black man who became an author and abolitionist movement leader in Philadelphia, PA. The volume document the stories of escaped slaves, and remains "the only first-person account of Black activities on the Underground Railroad written and self-published by an African-America...William Still was a major contributor to the success of the Underground Railroad activities in Philadelphia and a part of Philadelphia's free Black community that played an essential role in the Underground Railroad. He personally provide room and board for many African Americans who escaped slavery and stopped in Philadelphia on their way to Canada. Through his work with the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery's Vigilance Committee, he raised funds to assist runaways and arrange their passage to the North. He was instrumental in financing several of Harriet Tubman's trips to the South to liberate enslaved Africans" (Turner, Diane D. "William Still's National Significance." Web blog post. William Still: African American Abolitionist. Temple University, n.d. 18 August, 2016)." --description from Lorne Bair Rare Books Inc., bookseller.
Author: William Still
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Published: 1871
Total Pages: 850
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Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 368
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