Bulletin
Author: Free Library of Philadelphia
Publisher:
Published: 1904
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13:
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Fugitives of the Heart
Author: William Gay
Publisher: Livingston Press (AL)
Published: 2021-06-20
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781604892734
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFiction. In his last posthumous novel, William Gay has offered admirable homage to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Marion Yates, a teenage orphan, is taken in by an ex-schoolteacher named Black Crowe. The boy in turn cares for Crowe when he is temporarily disabled by a dynamite blast. Every hardscrabble thing we have come to expect from Gay lies in this novel, including an offbeat and dark humor.
Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky Borderland
Author: J. Blaine Hudson
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-05-07
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1476604223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1783 and 1860, more than 100,000 enslaved African Americans escaped across the border between slave and free territory in search of freedom. Most of these escapes were unaided, but as the American anti-slavery movement became more militant after 1830, assisted escapes became more common. Help came from the Underground Railroad, which still stands as one of the most powerful and sustained multiracial human rights movements in world history. This work examines and interprets the available historical evidence about fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad in Kentucky, the southernmost sections of the free states bordering Kentucky along the Ohio River, and, to a lesser extent, the slave states to the immediate south. Kentucky was central to the Underground Railroad because its northern boundary, the Ohio River, represented a three hundred mile boundary between slavery and nominal freedom. The book examines the landscape of Kentucky and the surrounding states; fugitive slaves before 1850, in the 1850s and during the Civil War; and their motivations and escape strategies and the risks involved with escape. The reasons why people broke law and social convention to befriend fugitive slaves, common escape routes, crossing points through Kentucky from Tennessee and points south, and specific individuals who provided assistance--all are topics covered.
In the Garden of the Fugitives
Author: Ceridwen Dovey
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Published: 2018-02-26
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1743483813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlmost twenty years after forbidding him to contact her, Vita receives an email from her old benefactor, Royce. Once, she was one of his brightest protégées; now her career has stalled and Royce is ailing, and each has a need to settle accounts. Beyond their murky shared history, both have lost beloveds, one to an untimely death, another to a strange disappearance. And both are trying to free themselves from deeper pasts, Vita from the inheritance of her birthplace, Royce from the grip of the ancient city of Pompeii and the secrets of the Garden of the Fugitives. Between what’s been repressed and what has been excavated are disturbances that reach back through decades, even centuries. Addictive and unsettling, In the Garden of the Fugitives is a masterpiece of duplicity and counterplay, as brilliantly illuminating as it is surprising – about the obscure workings of guilt in the human psyche, the compulsion to create, and the dangerous morphing of desire into control. It is the breakthrough work of one of Australia’s most exciting emerging writers.
Black Soldiers of the Queen
Author: P. S. Thompson
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2006-08-27
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 0817353682
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The Fugitive Forester
Author: Joel Robertson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2008-08-26
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 1465321969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMistakenly accused as a murder, the Fugitive Forester hides out in the woods and lives off the land as he strives to bring the real murderer to justice. The methods he uses to survive and avoid detection gives real meaning to the term survivor. To those who have wondered how a person can remain hidden in the woods this book is an eye opener.
Take Me to the River
Author: Will Hobbs
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2011-02-15
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 0062069683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeep in trouble, Deep in the canyons Fourteen-year-old Dylan Sands has come all the way from North Carolina to Big Bend National Park, on the Texas/Mexico border, to paddle the fabled Rio Grande. His partner in adventure is a local river rat, his cousin Rio. As the two are packing their boats for ten days in the canyons, six Black Hawk helicopters appear overhead and race across the river into Mexico. The army won't tell the boys what's happening, but they are given a weather advisory: A hurricane is approaching the Gulf of Mexico. Dylan and Rio have their hearts set on their trip and can't give it up. Rio believes that their chances of running into border troubles or a major storm are slim to none. By canoe and raft, Dylan and Rio venture into the most rugged and remote reaches of the U.S./Mexico border. You may well not see another human being during the duration of your trip, the guidebook tells them. They don't, until a man stumbles into camp with a seven-year-old boy. A storm is brewing as the man who calls himself Carlos begs for help . . . and the boy is trembling with fear.
Washington County Underground Railroad
Author: Henry Robert Burke
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738532561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWashington County Underground Railroad explores Underground Railroad activity in southeastern Ohio using rare photographs, maps, documents, newspaper clippings, and historical research. Starting with the first fugitive slave escape routes, this book travels along the Underground Railroad lines into the stations, documenting the experience of the brave slaves fleeing for freedom and those who risked their lives to help them. Veterans of the War of 1812 helped establish the Underground Railroad in the Washington County area and assisted in this secret and dangerous operation for 50 years. Within these pages, authors Henry Robert Burke and Charles Hart Fogle uncover substantial aspects of this remarkable episode in American history-details that were hidden or simply left to words, until now.
A Defence for Fugitive Slaves
Author: Lysander Spooner
Publisher:
Published: 1850
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEncyclopedia of the Underground Railroad
Author: J. Blaine Hudson
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-01-09
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1476602301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFugitive slaves were reported in the American colonies as early as the 1640s, and escapes escalated with the growth of slavery over the next 200 years. As the number of fugitives rose, the Southern states pressed for harsher legislation to prevent escapes. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 criminalized any assistance, active or passive, to a runaway slave--yet it only encouraged the behavior it sought to prevent. Friends of the fugitive, whose previous assistance to runaways had been somewhat haphazard, increased their efforts at organization. By the onset of the Civil War in 1861, the Underground Railroad included members, defined stops, set escape routes and a code language. From the abolitionist movement to the Zionville Baptist Missionary Church, this encyclopedia focuses on the people, ideas, events and places associated with the interrelated histories of fugitive slaves, the African American struggle for equality and the American antislavery movement. Information is drawn from primary sources such as public records, document collections, slave autobiographies and antebellum newspapers.
