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Underground railroad

by: United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications

Publication date: 1998

Topics: Underground Railroad, Slavery, Fugitive slaves, Historic sites, Underground railroad, Fugitive slaves, Slavery, African Americans

Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Dept. of the Interior

Collection: internetarchivebooks; americana

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

Item Size: 199.5M

Includes essays by Larry Gara, Brenda E. Stevenson, and C. Peter Ripley

Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-85) and index

An epic in United States history: Myth and reality / Larry Gara -- From Bondage to freedom: Slavery in America / Brenda E. Stevenson -- Underground Railroad / C. Peter Ripley -- Tracking the past

By ones, twos, and threes, in the years before the Civil War thousands of enslaved people slipped through the night on their way to freedom, riding the Underground Railroad. Hidden and hunted, the escape of southern slaves to the North remains a compelling event in American history. Within the pages of this book are documented, in prose and elegantly articulate photographs, examples of "stations" on the Railroad, along with images of the routes, lives, and hardships of both the "passengers" and "conductors."