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Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky Borderland
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: J. Blaine Hudson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-07 - Publisher: McFarland

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Between 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 the
Slavery's Borderland
Language: en
Pages: 329
Authors: Matthew Salafia
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-28 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance made the Ohio River the dividing line between slavery and freedom in the West, yet in 1861, when the Civil War tore the nation
The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: Robert H. Churchill
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-02 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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A new interpretation of the Underground Railroad that places violence at the center of the story.
A Fluid Frontier
Language: en
Pages: 270
Authors: Karolyn Smardz Frost
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-15 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press

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Scholars of the Underground Railroad as well as those in borderland studies will appreciate the interdisciplinary mix and unique contributions of this volume.
Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Damian Alan Pargas
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-08 - Publisher: University Press of Florida

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This volume introduces a new way to study the experiences of runaway slaves by defining different “spaces of freedom” they inhabited. It also provides a gro