Free Black communities and the Underground Railroad : the geography of resistance

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Label

Free Black communities and the Underground Railroad : the geography of resistance

Title remainder

the geography of resistance

Statement of responsibility

Cheryl Janifer LaRoche

Creator

• LaRoche, Cheryl Janifer

Subject

• African Americans -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
• Antislavery movements -- United States -- History
• Excavations (Archaeology) -- United States
• trueFugitive slaves -- United States -- History
• HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
• African Americans -- Antiquities
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery
• Underground Railroad -- Illinois
• trueUnderground Railroad -- Indiana
• trueUnderground Railroad -- Ohio
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

Genre

• trueSources

Language

eng

Summary

This study employs the tools of archaeology to uncover a new historical perspective on the Underground Railroad. Unlike previous histories of the Underground Railroad, which have focused on frightened fugitive slaves and their benevolent abolitionist accomplices, Cheryl LaRoche focuses instead on free African American communities, the crucial help they provided to individuals fleeing slavery, and the terrain where those flights to freedom occurred

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

973.7/115

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

• F450
• E450

LC item number

• .L37 2014
• .L37 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography