Add to ORKGEditor Timothy Walker and the chapters’ authors challenge the “20th century fakelore featuring the use of quilt codes, lawn jockeys and other physical devices as signs and signals.” What their collection shows is “that escape by water, through a vast network of maritime links, was far more common,” as escapees often hid in plain sight, posing as dockworkers, and seamen, on their way to freedom
In the decades before the Civil War, St. Louis sat on a border between slave and free states. Jesse ...
The revolt aboard the American slaving ship, the Creole (1841), was an unprecedented success. A mino...
In the three decades leading up to the American Civil War, there existed a loose network of people w...
The Underground Railroad, Black Agency, and the Coming of the Civil War The momentum toward uncoveri...
Ferrying across the river Forgotten conductors rediscovered For generations, white Quaker activist...
The Role of Fugitive Slaves in the Workings of the Underground Railroad Based on a series of lecture...
This dissertation examines and reconstructs the lives of fugitive slaves who used the maritime indus...
The past several years have seen a new energy and heightened scholarly attention to many diverse asp...
This dissertation examines and reconstructs the lives of fugitive slaves who used the maritime indus...
The Underground Railroad in an Important Juncture State Last month, at a Fourth of July barbeque, a ...
Outside the Lecture Hall The Underground Railroad and Organized Abolitionism Fergus Bordewich\u27...
This article juxtaposes the Underground Railroad with contemporary Central American smuggling practi...
Major routes of travel for freedom seekers included movement from communities in the Mississippi Riv...
This article explores the figure of the ‘migrant slave’ that appears to conjoin antithetical notions...
Now you can experience one of the most storied treks to freedom in American history – by bicycle. A ...
In the decades before the Civil War, St. Louis sat on a border between slave and free states. Jesse ...
The revolt aboard the American slaving ship, the Creole (1841), was an unprecedented success. A mino...
In the three decades leading up to the American Civil War, there existed a loose network of people w...
The Underground Railroad, Black Agency, and the Coming of the Civil War The momentum toward uncoveri...
Ferrying across the river Forgotten conductors rediscovered For generations, white Quaker activist...
The Role of Fugitive Slaves in the Workings of the Underground Railroad Based on a series of lecture...
This dissertation examines and reconstructs the lives of fugitive slaves who used the maritime indus...
The past several years have seen a new energy and heightened scholarly attention to many diverse asp...
This dissertation examines and reconstructs the lives of fugitive slaves who used the maritime indus...
The Underground Railroad in an Important Juncture State Last month, at a Fourth of July barbeque, a ...
Outside the Lecture Hall The Underground Railroad and Organized Abolitionism Fergus Bordewich\u27...
This article juxtaposes the Underground Railroad with contemporary Central American smuggling practi...
Major routes of travel for freedom seekers included movement from communities in the Mississippi Riv...
This article explores the figure of the ‘migrant slave’ that appears to conjoin antithetical notions...
Now you can experience one of the most storied treks to freedom in American history – by bicycle. A ...
In the decades before the Civil War, St. Louis sat on a border between slave and free states. Jesse ...
The revolt aboard the American slaving ship, the Creole (1841), was an unprecedented success. A mino...
In the three decades leading up to the American Civil War, there existed a loose network of people w...