Passages to Freedom
Subtitle: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory
By: edited by David W. Blight.
Contributors: Blight, David W.
Publisher: Smithsonian Books; National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, D. C.
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Underground railroad; Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Slavery -- United States -- History; Historic sites -- United States; United States -- History, Local
Notes: Includes illustrations (some color), maps, bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Spencer Crew
pagenum: vii; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xi; title: Introduction: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory / David W. Blight
pagenum: 1; label: Part One
title: Slavery and Abolition
pagenum: 11; label: 1
title: Before Cotton: African and African American Slavery in Mainland North America during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Ira Berlin
pagenum: 13; label: 2
title: Simple Truths: Antebellum Slavery in Black and White / Deborah Gray White
pagenum: 33; label: 3
title: From Moral Suasion to Political Confrontation: American Abolitionists and the Problem of Resistance, 1831-1861 / James Brewer Stewart
pagenum: 67; label: Part Two
title: Stories of the Real Underground Railroad
pagenum: 93; label: 4
title: Above Ground on the Underground Railroad: Places of Flight and Refuge / John Michael Vlach
pagenum: 95; label: 5
title: Southern Passage: The Forgotten Route to Freedom in Florida / Jane Landers
pagenum: 117; label: 6
title: "Freemen to the Rescue!": Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 / R. J. M. Blackett
pagenum: 133; label: 7
title: Kidnapping and Resistance: Antislavery Direct Action in the 1850s / Lois E. Horton
pagenum: 149; label: 8
title: A Crusade for Freedom: William Still and the Real Underground Railroad / James Oliver Horton
pagenum: 175; label: 9
title: "Slavery Is War": Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad / Catherine Clinton
pagenum: 195; label: 10
title: Flight and Fight: The Wartime Destruction of Slaver, 1861-1865 / Bruce Levine
pagenum: 211; label: Part Three
title: The Story Endures in History and Legend
pagenum: 231; label: 11
title: Why the Underground Railroad, and Why Now? A Long View / David W. Blight
pagenum: 233; label: 12
title: Telling It Like It Was at Rokeby: The Evolution of an Underground Railroad Historic Site in Vermont / Jane Williamson
pagenum: 249; label: 13
title: Reading Freedom's Memory Book: Recovering the Story of the Underground Railroad in New York State / Milton C. Sernett
pagenum: 261; label: 14
title: The Places and Communities of the Underground Railroad: The National Park Service Network to Freedom / Diane Miller
pagenum: 279; label: 15
title: A Sacred Drama: "Exodus" and the Underground Railroad in African American Life / Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
pagenum: 291; title: Suggestions for Further Reading
pagenum: 305; title: Contributors
pagenum: 310; title: Notes
pagenum: 312; title: Illustration Credits
pagenum: 332; title: Index
pagenum: 333