The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America, Paperback - Robert H. Churchill

Reducere. As runaway slaves fled from the South to escape bondage, slave catchers followed in their wake. The arrival of fugitives and slave catchers in the ...

Reducere. The first full-length biography of William Still, one of the most important leaders of the Underground Railroad.William Still: The Underground Rail...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Underground Railroad, then keep reading...The Underground Railroad wasn't underground. Nor w...

DescriptionThe Dred Scott suit for freedom, argues Kelly M. Kennington, was merely the most famous example of a phenomenon that was more widespread...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Kabria BaumgartnerNumber of pages: 320Collection: Early American PlacesPublication date: 2022Dimensi...

Reducere. Much like the rest of the nation, South Central Pennsylvania struggled with slavery. The institution lingered locally for more than fifty years, al...

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR FICTION 2016. 'Whitehead is on a roll: the reviews have been sublime'( Guardian). '...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Nina M. (Inaugural fellow, Inaugural fellow, McKinsey Center for the Future of Work) YancyNumber o...

Reducere. The Town of Chester in upstate Warren County, New York, was a secret haven for runaway slaves escaping to Canada along the Underground Railroad. Th...

Reducere. Tells the story of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. Written in graphic-novel format.

Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning, National Book Award-winning, Oprah-anointed, #1 New York Times bestselling novel that explores America's...

Reducere. Beyond the River brings to brilliant life the dramatic story of the forgotten heroes of the Ripley, Ohio, line of the Underground Railroad. From th...

Reducere. Illus. in full color. Cassie, who flew above New York in Tar Beach, soars into the sky once more. This time, she and her brother Be Be meet a train...

Reducere. Because of its clandestine nature, much of the history of the Underground Railroad remains shrouded in secrecy--so much so that some historians hav...

Reducere. Between 1830 and 1860, thousands of Southern slaves escaped to the North and Canada by way of the "underground railroad." Neither underground nor a...

Reducere. William Still's encyclopaedic collection of slave narratives.

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In the early to mid-1800s, Jackson County was home to two branches of the Underground Railroad, a secret network that funneled fugitives from slave...

Reducere. DescriptionThe spirits of Harriet Tubman, John Brown, and other heroes of the Underground Railroad guide readers on a magical path to healing, empo...

Reducere. New Hampshire was once a hotbed of abolitionist activity. But the state had its struggles with slavery, with Portsmouth serving as a slave-trade hu...

Reducere. Many believe that support for the abolition of slavery was universally accepted in Vermont, but it was actually a fiercely divisive issue that rock...

DescriptionIn the mid-19th century, rhetoric surrounding slavery was permeated by violence. Slavery's defenders often used brute force to suppress ...

Reducere. DescriptionIt was the day before Independence Day, 1833. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be sold down the river, Thornton Blackburn planned a dar...

Reducere. America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line--the first American railroad--in the 1830s sparked a national revolutio...

Reducere. First published in 1872, "The Underground Railroad" is the fascinating first-hand account of hundreds of slaves and their escape to freedom by Will...

Reducere. DescriptionMany of the unsung heroes of the Underground Railroad lived and worked in Washington, D.C. Men and women, black and white, operatives an...

It's 1851 and Lucy Spencer's family is keeping a secret. Their Ohio home is a station on the Underground Railroad, the network of people and places...

Reducere. What may happen now that so many more children are denied exposure to wilderness than at any other time in human history?About the Author: Gary Pau...

Reducere. Twenty-eight-year-old Will, a teacher living in Montreal, has spent the last few months recovering from a breakup with his first serious boyfriend,...

Reducere. The fascinating story of a friendship, a lost tradition, and an incredible discovery, revealing how enslaved men and women made encoded quilts and ...

Reducere. More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence,...

Reducere. From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state fail...

Reducere. Virginia Waterways and the Underground Railroad, Hardcover

Reducere. From Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning author-illustrator Don Tate comes the highly anticipated and remarkable, little-known story of William Still, kn...

Reducere. The thread that runs through the poems in The Geography of Kitchens is one that connects us to family members who shaped our lives, particularly th...

Reducere. The thread that runs through the poems in The Geography of Kitchens is one that connects us to family members who shaped our lives, particularly th...

Reducere. As the major gateway into British North America for travelers on the Underground Railroad, the U.S./Canadian border along the Detroit River was a b...

Reducere. DescriptionDavid Ruggles (1810-1849) was one of the most heroic--and has been one of the most often overlooked--figures of the early abolitionist m...

DescriptionFrom the arrival of the Quakers in the seventeenth century to the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation, Long Island played an im...

In post-World War II America and especially during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s, the psychologist Rollo May contributed profoundly to the popular ...

DescriptionAva, Ellie, and Griffin never had a teacher like Miss Snoddy ... not even close They are in awe of her amazing stories about our country...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in ...

The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists Published from 1936 to 1966...

Polly was used to people coming and going at her house at all times of the night because her family ran an Underground Railroad station. Strangely,...

From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures a...

The gruesome history of the Congo-Ocean Railway, a forgotten chapter in the story of colonial AfricaPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): J. P...

Reducere. Judge Bork shares a personal account of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on his nomination as well as his view on politics versus the law.