Railroadin' Some
Railroadin' Some

Author: Max Haymes

Publisher: Music Mentor Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13:

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This groundbreaking book, written by one of the foremost blues historians in the UK, is based on over 30 years' research, exploration and absolute passion for early blues music. It is the first ever comprehensive study of the enormous impact of the railroads on 19th and early 20th Century African American society and the many and varied references to this new phenomenon in early blues lyrics. The book is comprehensively annotated, and also includes a Discography at the end of each chapter.

The Granite Monthly
The Granite Monthly

Author: Henry Harrison Metcalf

Publisher:

Published: 1883

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13:

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Contains articles on the White Mountains and a map.

Long Steel Rail
Long Steel Rail

Author: Norm Cohen

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 774

ISBN-13: 9780252068812

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Impeccable scholarship and lavish illustration mark this landmark study of American railroad folksong. Norm Cohen provides a sweeping discussion of the human aspects of railroad history, railroad folklore, and the evolution of the American folksong. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of eighty-five songs, from "John Henry" and "The Wabash Cannonball" to "Hell-Bound Train" and "Casey Jones," with their music, sources, history, and variations, and discographies. A substantial new introduction updates this edition.

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in West Virginia
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in West Virginia

Author: Bob Withers

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9780738552835

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In 1827, a group of Baltimore capitalists feared their city would be left out of the lucrative East Coast-to-Midwest trade that other eastern cities were developing; thus, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was chartered. Political pressure kept the B&O out of Pennsylvania at first, and so track crews headed for what is now West Virginia, building mountainous routes with torturous grades to Wheeling and Parkersburg. Eventually the B&O financed and acquired a spiderweb of branch lines that covered much of the northern and central parts of the Mountain State. This book takes a close look at the line's locomotives, passenger and freight trains, structures, and, most importantly, its people who endeared their company to generations of travelers, shippers, and small Appalachian communities.

Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City
Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City

Author: Don Papson

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-01-28

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1476618712

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During the fourteen years Sydney Howard Gay edited the American Anti-Slavery Society's National Anti-Slavery Standard in New York City, he worked with some of the most important Underground agents in the eastern United States, including Thomas Garrett, William Still and James Miller McKim. Gay's closest associate was Louis Napoleon, a free black man who played a major role in the James Kirk and Lemmon cases. For more than two years, Gay kept a record of the fugitives he and Napoleon aided. These never before published records are annotated in this book. Revealing how Gay was drawn into the bitter division between Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison, the work exposes the private opinions that divided abolitionists. It describes the network of black and white men and women who were vital links in the extensive Underground Railroad, conclusively confirming a daily reality.

The Search for the Underground Railroad in South-Central Ohio
The Search for the Underground Railroad in South-Central Ohio

Author: Tom Calarco

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2011-03-18

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1439673535

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True stories of the people in this region of Ohio who aided those fleeing slavery—includes photos and illustrations. The Underground Railroad remains one of America’s most ennobling true stories, and the people of Ohio played their part in this heroic endeavor. Suffering a crisis of conscience, Presbyterian minister James Gilliland left his South Carolina home for Red Oak, where he became one of the state’s earliest and strongest abolitionists. Peru Township’s Richard Dillingham died helping the enslaved escape bondage. In Alum Creek, three generations of the Benedict family risked life and limb doing the same. Quakers Jane and Valentine Nicholson of Clinton County carted many a fugitive to freedom, as did Wilmington Quaker Abraham Allen with his trusty Liberator wagon. Drawing on decades of research, author Tom Calarco uncovers the real tales of our nation’s quest for freedom and equality for all.

Underground Railroad in New York and New Jersey
Underground Railroad in New York and New Jersey

Author: William J. Switala

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 2006-06-26

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0811746291

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• Maps of the major escape routes • Identifies houses and sites where slaves found refuge • Chapter on Canada discusses the final destination Tells the story of the network that guided escaped slaves to freedom, its operation, its important figures, and its specific history in New York and New Jersey. Pinpoints major routes in the states, with maps and information for locating them today.

The Ecology of Modernism
The Ecology of Modernism

Author: Joshua Schuster

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2015-10-15

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0817358293

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The Ecology of Modernism explores the unexpected absence of an environmental ethic in American modernist and avant-garde poetics, given its keen concern with an environmental aesthetic, and explains why American modernism was never green. Examining the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution, Joshua Schuster posits that the curious failure of modernist poets to develop an environmental ethnic was a deliberate choice and not an inadvertent omission.